CVE-2020-36518 is an uncontrolled resource-consumption vulnerability in Jackson Databind prior to 2.13.0. Processing input containing objects nested to a significant depth can recursively consume the Java call stack until a StackOverflowError occurs, causing denial of service in applications that deserialize attacker-controlled data.
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A Jackson Databind denial-of-service vulnerability caused by a large depth of nested objects, addressed in the OpenShift Logging Subsystem update.
A Jackson Databind denial-of-service vulnerability involving excessively deep nesting of objects.
Denial-of-service vulnerability in jackson-databind caused by deeply nested objects.
A Jackson Databind denial-of-service vulnerability caused by deeply nested objects.
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