CVE-2023-4043 (Medium) detected in parsson-1.0.0.jar

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CVE-2023-4043 - Medium Severity Vulnerability

Vulnerable Library - parsson-1.0.0.jar

Jakarta JSON Processing provider

Library home page: https://www.eclipse.org

Path to dependency file: /pom.xml

Path to vulnerable library: /pom.xml

Dependency Hierarchy:

• spring-boot-starter-data-elasticsearch-2.7.18.jar (Root Library)
  • spring-data-elasticsearch-4.4.18.jar
    • elasticsearch-java-7.17.15.jar
      • ❌ parsson-1.0.0.jar (Vulnerable Library)

Found in HEAD commit: eefd5868376ca8987ffdd8cb314e709ef38f81a1

Found in base branch: master

Vulnerability Details

In Eclipse Parsson before versions 1.1.4 and 1.0.5, Parsing JSON from untrusted sources can lead malicious actors to exploit the fact that the built-in support for parsing numbers with large scale in Java has a number of edge cases where the input text of a number can lead to much larger processing time than one would expect.

To mitigate the risk, parsson put in place a size limit for the numbers as well as their scale.

Publish Date: 2023-11-03

URL: CVE-2023-4043

CVSS 3 Score Details (5.9)

Base Score Metrics:

• Exploitability Metrics:
  • Attack Vector: Network
  • Attack Complexity: High
  • Privileges Required: None
  • User Interaction: None
  • Scope: Unchanged
• Impact Metrics:
  • Confidentiality Impact: None
  • Integrity Impact: None
  • Availability Impact: High

For more information on CVSS3 Scores, click here.

Suggested Fix

Type: Upgrade version

Origin: https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/vulnerability-reports/-/issues/13

Release Date: 2023-11-03

Fix Resolution (org.eclipse.parsson:parsson): 1.0.5

Direct dependency fix Resolution (org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-elasticsearch): 3.3.0

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