CVE-2017-15707: DoS vulnerability

December 1, 2017 (updated April 26, 2019)

The REST Plugin is using an outdated JSON-lib library which is vulnerable and allow perform a DoS attack using malicious request with specially crafted JSON payload.

References

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/WW/S2-054
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15707

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