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Fencer Vulns
high 8.6

CVE-2023-7272 json

Eclipse Parsson stack overflow with deeply nested objects

published 2024-07-17 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-2228 , GHSA-2rwm-xv5j-777p

cvss
8.6
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 48%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In Eclipse Parsson before 1.0.4 and 1.1.3, a document with a large depth of nested objects can allow an attacker to cause a Java stack overflow exception and denial of service. Eclipse Parsson allows processing (e.g. parse, generate, transform and query) JSON documents.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.eclipse.parsson:parsson 1.0.4, 1.1.3
  • eclipse parsson 1.0.4, 1.1.3
  • org.eclipse.parsson parsson 1.0.4, 1.1.3

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-2023-7272 updated cvss 6.8

parsson: stack overflow when parsing deeply nested input

  • Red Hat Fuse 7 parsson
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 parsson
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat Cryostat 3 parsson Red Hat OpenShift Serverless parsson Red Hat build of Apache Camel - HawtIO 4 parsson Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4 for Quarkus 3 parsson Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 3 parsson Red Hat build of Apicurio Registry 2 parsson
    +4 more products
    Red Hat build of Quarkus org.eclipse.parsson.parsson org.eclipse.parsson.parsson, org.eclipse.parsson.jakarta.json org.eclipse.parsson.jakarta.json Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 org.eclipse.parsson-project org.eclipse.parsson-project Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack org.eclipse.parsson-project org.eclipse.parsson-project Red Hat streams for Apache Kafka parsson
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.59% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 48% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • gitlab.eclipse.org https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/vulnerability-reports/-/issues/12 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 8.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 8.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/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

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.eclipse.parsson:parsson
>=1.1.0, <1.1.3
<1.0.4
1.1.3
1.0.4

Affected products

  • Eclipse Foundation Parsson
  • eclipse_foundation parsson

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.