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.
{
"github_reviewed_at": "2021-04-22T17:02:38Z",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-787"
],
"severity": "HIGH",
"github_reviewed": true,
"nvd_published_at": "2020-11-06T14:15:00Z"
}