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high 7.5

CVE-2022-42004 json

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in FasterXML jackson-databind

published 4y ago modified last mo. also GHSA-rgv9-q543-rqg4 , EUVD-2022-7159

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.4%
EPSS 3.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In FasterXML jackson-databind before 2.13.4, resource exhaustion can occur because of a lack of a check in BeanDeserializer._deserializeFromArray to prevent use of deeply nested arrays. An application is vulnerable only with certain customized choices for deserialization.

Patch / fix

  • maven com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind 2.12.7.1, 2.13.4
  • fasterxml jackson-databind 2.12.7.1, 2.13.4
  • quarkus quarkus 2.13.0
  • jackson-databind Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.14.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-42004

  • jenkins ocp tools 4.11 2.401.1.1686831596-3.el8
  • jenkins-2-plugins ocp tools 4.11 4.11.1686831822-1.el8
  • cjson satellite capsule 6.13, satellite 6.13 1.7.14-5.el8sat
  • foreman satellite utils 6.13, satellite capsule 6.13, satellite 6.13 3.5.1.14-1.el8sat
  • katello satellite capsule 6.13, satellite 6.13 4.7.0-1.el8sat
  • libsolv satellite capsule 6.13, satellite 6.13 0.7.22-4.el8pc
  • libcomps satellite capsule 6.13, satellite 6.13 0.1.18-4.el8pc
  • qpid-cpp satellite capsule 6.13, satellite 6.13 1.39.0-7.el8amq

red hat advisories RHSA-2025:1747RHSA-2025:1746RHSA-2023:3663RHSA-2023:2097RHSA-2023:1043RHSA-2023:1044

  • jackson-databind SLES for SAP 15 SP2, SLES 15 SP2-LTSS, SLES 15 SP2-BCL +12 more 2.13.4.2-150200.3.12.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2022:3995-1

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-42004 updated cvss 7.5

jackson-databind: use of deeply nested arrays

  • Red Hat build of Apicurio Registry 2 jackson-databind
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 jackson-databind, jackson-databind-javadoc
    affected: no fix available, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 jackson-databind, pki-jackson-databind Red Hat Fuse 7 jackson-databind
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Integration Camel K 1 jackson-databind Red Hat Integration Camel Quarkus 1 jackson-databind
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Integration Service Registry jackson-databind Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 jackson-databind Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 jackson-databind Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 jackson-databind, jboss-on jboss-on, keycloak-adapter-eap6 keycloak-adapter-eap6, keycloak-adapter-sso7_2-eap6 keycloak-adapter-sso7_2-eap6, keycloak-adapter-sso7_3-eap6 keycloak-adapter-sso7_3-eap6, keycloak-adapter-sso7_4-eap6 keycloak-adapter-sso7_4-eap6, +1 more Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 jackson-databind Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 jackson-databind
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes jackson-databind
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 jenkins-2-plugins
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 jenkins-2-plugins Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces devspaces/server-rhel8
    affected: no fix available
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  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) opendaylight
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat support for Spring Boot jackson-databind
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Middleware Containers for OpenShift rh-sso-7/sso76-openshift-rhel8 7.6-20
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:1047
  • Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Runtimes 1 on RHEL 8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:0471
  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services for OCP 4.11 for RHEL 8 jenkins-2-plugins 4.11.1686831822-1.el8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:3663
  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services for OCP 4.12 jenkins-2-plugins 4.12.1675702407-1.el8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:1064
  • Red Hat OpenShift Logging 5.3 openshift-logging/elasticsearch6-rhel8 v6.8.1-277, openshift-logging/elasticsearch-proxy-rhel8 v1.0.0-315, openshift-logging/elasticsearch-rhel8-operator v5.3.14-5, openshift-logging/elasticsearch-operator-bundle v5.3.14-16
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:8889
  • Red Hat AMQ Broker 7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:8876
  • Red Hat AMQ Streams 2.3.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:0189
  • Red Hat AMQ Streams 2.4.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:3223
  • Red Hat build of Eclipse Vert.x 4.3.4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:9032
  • Red Hat build of Quarkus 2.7.7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:1006
  • Red Hat build of Quarkus 2.13.5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:9023
  • Red Hat Data Grid 8.4.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:0713
  • Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.4 for RHEL 7 Server eap7-jackson-databind 2.12.7-1.redhat_00003.1.el7eap
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:0552
  • Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.4 for RHEL 8 eap7-jackson-databind 2.12.7-1.redhat_00003.1.el8eap
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:0553
  • Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.4 for RHEL 9 eap7-jackson-databind 2.12.7-1.redhat_00003.1.el9eap
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:0554
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 EUS for RHEL 7 Server eap7-resteasy 3.0.27-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.ep7.el7, eap7-resteasy-cdi 3.0.27-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.ep7.el7, eap7-resteasy-jaxrs 3.0.27-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.ep7.el7, eap7-resteasy-jsapi 3.0.27-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.ep7.el7, eap7-resteasy-client 3.0.27-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.ep7.el7, eap7-resteasy-crypto 3.0.27-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.ep7.el7, +12 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2025:1746
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 EUS for RHEL 7 Server eap7-resteasy 3.11.6-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap, eap7-jackson-databind 2.10.4-4.redhat_00004.1.el7eap, eap7-resteasy-cdi 3.11.6-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap, eap7-resteasy-jaxrs 3.11.6-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap, eap7-resteasy-jsapi 3.11.6-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap, eap7-jackson-datatype-jdk8 2.10.4-2.redhat_00004.1.el7eap, +18 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2025:1747
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.9 jackson-databind 2.12.7.redhat-00003
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:0556
  • Red Hat Satellite 6.13 for RHEL 8 candlepin 4.2.13-1.el8sat, candlepin-selinux 4.2.13-1.el8sat
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:2097
  • Red Hat Single Sign-On 7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:1049
  • Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6 for RHEL 7 Server rh-sso7-keycloak 18.0.6-1.redhat_00001.1.el7sso, rh-sso7-keycloak-server 18.0.6-1.redhat_00001.1.el7sso
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:1043
  • Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6 for RHEL 8 rh-sso7-keycloak 18.0.6-1.redhat_00001.1.el8sso, rh-sso7-keycloak-server 18.0.6-1.redhat_00001.1.el8sso
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:1044

8 more fixed, 19 more not affected in the full advisory

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
last mo.

Exploit prediction

3.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • bugs.chromium.org https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=50490 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • github.com https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/issues/3582 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind
>=2.4.0-rc1, <2.12.7.1
>=2.13.0, <2.13.4
2.12.7.1
2.13.4

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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