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