ubuntu-cve-2021-46877
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2023-03-18 22:15
Modified
2025-10-24 04:50
Summary
Details

jackson-databind 2.10.x through 2.12.x before 2.12.6 and 2.13.x before 2.13.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (2 GB transient heap usage per read) in uncommon situations involving JsonNode JDK serialization.

Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "libjackson2-databind-java",
            "binary_version": "2.10.2-1"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:20.04:LTS",
        "name": "jackson-databind",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/jackson-databind@2.10.2-1?arch=source\u0026distro=focal"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "2.9.9.3-1",
        "2.10.0-2",
        "2.10.1-1",
        "2.10.2-1"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "libjackson2-databind-java",
            "binary_version": "2.13.0-2"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:22.04:LTS",
        "name": "jackson-databind",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/jackson-databind@2.13.0-2?arch=source\u0026distro=jammy"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "2.12.1-1",
        "2.12.5-1",
        "2.13.0-1",
        "2.13.0-2"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "jackson-databind 2.10.x through 2.12.x before 2.12.6 and 2.13.x before 2.13.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (2 GB transient heap usage per read) in uncommon situations involving JsonNode JDK serialization.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2021-46877",
  "modified": "2025-10-24T04:50:41Z",
  "published": "2023-03-18T22:15:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-46877"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://groups.google.com/g/jackson-user/c/OsBsirPM_Vw"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/issues/3328"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/commit/3ccde7d938fea547e598fdefe9a82cff37fed5cb"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/commit/3ccde7d938fea547e598fdefe9a82cff37fed5cb"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-46877"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2021-46877"
  ]
}



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