CVE-2023-1436: Jettison vulnerable to infinite recursion

March 22, 2023

An infinite recursion is triggered in Jettison when constructing a JSONArray from a Collection that contains a self-reference in one of its elements. This leads to a StackOverflowError exception being thrown.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-q6g2-g7f3-rr83
github.com/jettison-json/jettison/issues/60
github.com/jettison-json/jettison/pull/62
github.com/jettison-json/jettison/releases/tag/jettison-1.5.4
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1436
research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/jettison-json-array-dos-xray-427911/

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