aeson was vulnerable to hash flooding (a.k.a. hash DoS). The issue is a consequence of the HashMap implementation from unordered-containers. It results in a denial of service through CPU consumption. This technique has been used in real-world attacks against a variety of languages, libraries and frameworks over the years.
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