CVE-2020-28491: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

December 9, 2021

This affects the package com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-cbor before 2.11.4, from 2.12.0-rc1 and before 2.12.1. Unchecked allocation of byte buffer can cause a java.lang.OutOfMemoryError exception.

References

github.com/FasterXML/jackson-dataformats-binary/commit/de072d314af8f5f269c8abec6930652af67bc8e6
github.com/FasterXML/jackson-dataformats-binary/issues/186
github.com/advisories/GHSA-xmc8-26q4-qjhx
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28491

Detect and mitigate CVE-2020-28491 with GitLab Dependency Scanning

Secure your software supply chain by verifying that all open source dependencies used in your projects contain no disclosed vulnerabilities. Learn more about Dependency Scanning →