CVE-2020-27196

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in PlayJava in Play Framework 2.6.0 through 2.8.2. The body parsing of HTTP requests eagerly parses a payload given a Content-Type header. A deep JSON structure sent to a valid POST endpoint (that may or may not expect JSON payloads) causes a StackOverflowError and Denial of Service.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-787

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://www.playframework.com/security/vulnerabilityVendor Advisory
https://www.playframework.com/security/vulnerability/CVE-2020-27196-DosViaJsonStackOverflowVendor Advisory
https://www.playframework.com/security/vulnerabilityVendor Advisory
https://www.playframework.com/security/vulnerability/CVE-2020-27196-DosViaJsonStackOverflowVendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Nov 6, 2020
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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