CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2020-27196
High (7.5) in lightbend play framework. EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in com.typesafe.play:play 2.7.6, 2.8.3.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 72% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-787
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- lightbend:play_framework
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-h48w-c35p-6m8x | Maven | com.typesafe.play:play | >=2.6.0 <2.7.6 | 2.7.6 |
| GHSA-h48w-c35p-6m8x | Maven | com.typesafe.play:play | >=2.8.0 <2.8.3 | 2.8.3 |
| GHSA-h48w-c35p-6m8x | Maven | com.typesafe.play:play-java | >=2.6.0 <2.7.6 | 2.7.6 |
| GHSA-h48w-c35p-6m8x | Maven | com.typesafe.play:play-java | >=2.8.0 <2.8.3 | 2.8.3 |