An issue was discovered in Play Framework 2.8.0 through 2.8.4. Carefully crafted JSON payloads sent as a form field lead to Data Amplification. This affects users migrating from a Play version prior to 2.8.0 that used the Play Java API to serialize classes with protected or private fields to JSON.
{
"extracted_events": [
{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:lightbend:play_framework:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"range": [
{
"introduced": "2.8.0"
},
{
"last_affected": "2.8.4"
}
],
"source": "CPE_RANGE"
}
]
}