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high 7.5

CVE-2026-89425 json

jackson-core: UTF8DataInputJsonParser._reportInvalidToken() does not honor maxErrorTokenLength, allowing unbounded StringBuilder growth

published 2026-09-23 47 d ago modified 2026-10-01 38 d ago also GHSA-7hhh-6rmp-j9qf , EUVD-2026-85000

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 45%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

UTF8DataInputJsonParser._reportInvalidToken() in FasterXML jackson-core builds the offending-token text for its error message by appending Java identifier characters to a StringBuilder in a loop that has no upper bound. Unlike the three sibling parser implementations, including UTF8StreamJsonParser, it never consults ErrorReportConfiguration.getMaxErrorTokenLength() (default 256). A malformed token supplied to a parser created through JsonFactory.createParser(DataInput) is therefore accumulated in full. No StreamReadConstraints setting mitigates this: maxDocumentLength cannot be applied to DataInput sources at all, and maxStringLength does not cover this path because the accumulation bypasses ReadConstrainedTextBuffer. The reporter measured a 20,000,109-character exception message from a 20-million-character malformed token on the DataInput path, against 367 characters for identical input on the InputStream path. Scaling the payload drives the StringBuilder, which also incurs byte-to-char expansion and internal array doubling, to many times the raw payload size and can trigger OutOfMemoryError for the whole JVM. UTF8DataInputJsonParser was introduced in 2.8.0 together with createParser(DataInput); releases before 2.8.0 do not contain the affected class.

Patch / fix

  • maven com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core 2.18.11, 2.21.7, 2.22.3
  • maven tools.jackson.core:jackson-core 3.1.7, 3.2.3
  • jackson-core Debian 14 2.18.11-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-89425

  • jackson-databind SLES for SAP applications 16.0, SLES 16.0 2.18.11-160000.1.1
  • jackson-core SLES for SAP applications 16.0, SLES 16.0 2.18.11-160000.1.1
  • jackson-annotations SLES for SAP applications 16.0, SLES 16.0 2.18.11-160000.1.1
  • jackson-core SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4 +8 more 2.18.11-150200.3.30.1
  • jackson-databind SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4 +8 more 2.18.11-150200.3.36.1
  • jackson-annotations SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4 +8 more 2.18.11-150200.3.28.1
  • jackson-dataformat-xml SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4 +8 more 2.18.11-150200.5.8.1
  • jackson-dataformats-binary SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4 +8 more 2.18.11-150200.3.29.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:24149-1SUSE-SU-2026:4394-1

  • jackson-databind openSUSE Leap 16.0 2.18.11-160000.1.1
  • jackson-core openSUSE Leap 16.0 2.18.11-160000.1.1
  • jackson-annotations openSUSE Leap 16.0 2.18.11-160000.1.1
  • jackson-core openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.18.11-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:22034-1openSUSE-SU-2026:11876-1

  • xsom AlmaLinux 8 0-19.20110809svn.module_el8.5.0+2577+9e95fe00
  • slf4j AlmaLinux 8 1.7.25-4.module_el8.5.0+2577+9e95fe00
  • stax-ex AlmaLinux 8 1.7.7-8.module_el8.5.0+2577+9e95fe00
  • velocity AlmaLinux 8 1.7-24.module_el8.5.0+2577+9e95fe00
  • xalan-j2 AlmaLinux 8 2.7.1-38.module_el8.5.0+2577+9e95fe00
  • javassist AlmaLinux 8 3.18.1-8.module_el8.5.0+2577+9e95fe00
  • xerces-j2 AlmaLinux 8 2.11.0-34.module_el8.5.0+2577+9e95fe00
  • slf4j-jdk14 AlmaLinux 8 1.7.25-4.module_el8.5.0+2577+9e95fe00

almalinux advisories ALSA-2026:90909ALSA-2026:86706

  • xsom Rocky Linux 8 0-19.20110809svn.module+el8.10.0+1763+c7c02164
  • xsom Rocky Linux 8 0-19.20110809svn.module+el8.10.0+2052+1b0fb438
  • slf4j Rocky Linux 8 1.7.25-4.module+el8.10.0+1763+c7c02164
  • slf4j Rocky Linux 8 1.7.25-4.module+el8.10.0+2052+1b0fb438
  • slf4j Rocky Linux 8 1.7.25-4.module+el8.6.0+843+5a13dac3
  • slf4j Rocky Linux 8 1.7.25-4.module+el8.3.0+74+855e3f5d
  • slf4j Rocky Linux 8 1.7.25-4.module+el8.10.0+2003+8aeac9cb
  • stax-ex Rocky Linux 8 1.7.7-8.module+el8.10.0+1763+c7c02164

rocky linux advisories RLSA-2026:90909RLSA-2026:86706

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-2026-89425 updated cvss 7.5

com.fasterxml.jackson.core/jackson-core: Jackson-core: Denial of Service via unbounded StringBuilder growth during malformed token processing

  • Red Hat Exploit Intelligence exploit-intelligence/agent-client-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services jenkins, jenkins-2-plugins Red Hat OpenShift Serverless openshift-serverless-1/kn-ekb-receiver-rhel9, openshift-serverless-1/kn-ekb-dispatcher-rhel9, openshift-serverless-1/kn-eventing-integrations-log-sink-rhel9, openshift-serverless-1/kn-eventing-integrations-aws-s3-sink-rhel9, openshift-serverless-1/kn-eventing-integrations-aws-sns-sink-rhel9, openshift-serverless-1/kn-eventing-integrations-aws-sqs-sink-rhel9, +4 more
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat AI Inference Server rhaii/vllm-gaudi-rhel9, rhaiis/vllm-cuda-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat AMQ Broker 7 jackson-core Red Hat build of Apache Camel - HawtIO 4 jackson-core Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4 for Quarkus 3 jackson-core Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4 jackson-core Red Hat build of Apicurio Registry 3 jackson-core Red Hat build of Debezium 3 jackson-core
    +1 more products
    Red Hat Build of Keycloak jackson-core, rhbk/keycloak-rhel9, keycloak/rhbk-rhel9-operator, rhbk/keycloak-rhel9-operator, keycloak/rhbk-openshift-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 8 liborc1 Red Hat Ceph Storage 9 liborc, liborc2, libarrow, parquet-libs
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Certificate System 10 redhat-pki Red Hat Certificate System 11 redhat-pki Red Hat Data Grid 8 jackson-core Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 dogtag-pki
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3 rhelai3/bootc-gaudi-rhel9 Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 jackson-core, jboss-eap-7/eap74-els-openjdk8-openshift-rhel8, jboss-eap-7/eap74-els-openjdk11-openshift-rhel8, jboss-eap-7/eap74-els-openjdk17-openshift-rhel8
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 jackson-core Red Hat JBoss Web Server 7 jboss-webserver-7/jws70-openjdk17-openshift-rhel9, jboss-webserver-7/jws70-openjdk17-rhel9-openshift, jboss-webserver-7/jws70-openjdk21-openshift-rhel9, jboss-webserver-7/jws70-openjdk21-rhel9-openshift Red Hat Lightspeed for Runtimes Operator rh-lightspeed-runtimes/runtimes-agent-init-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-modelmesh-rhel9, rhoai/odh-vllm-gaudi-rhel9, rhoai/odh-spark-operator-rhel9, rhoai/odh-th06-cpu-torch291-py312-rhel9, rhai-early-access/docling-serve-cuda-rhel9, rhoai/odh-th06-cuda130-torch291-py312-rhel9, +12 more
    affected: workaround, no fix available, no fix planned “Will not fix”
show 17 more
  • Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces devspaces/server-rhel9, devspaces/openvsx-rhel9, devspaces/pluginregistry-rhel9, devspaces/multicluster-redirector-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) opendaylight
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Satellite 6 puppetserver
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 jackson-core
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.12 ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel8 1792044326
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:88152
  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.13 ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel8 1792044327
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:88149
  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.14 ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel8 1792044382
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:88151
  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.15 ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel8 1792044386
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:88150
  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.16 ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel9 1792040287
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:88156
  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.17 ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel9 1792040131
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:88159
  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.18 ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel9 1792041514
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:88153
  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.19 ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel9 1792040733
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:88158
  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.20 ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel9 1792040081
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:88157
  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.21 ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel9 1792040096
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:88155
  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.22 ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel9 1792040428
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:88154
  • Red Hat Build of Apache Camel 3.33.4.redhat jackson-core 2.21.7.redhat-00001
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:83670
  • Red Hat build of Quarkus 3.27.6.redhat jackson-core 2.21.7.redhat-00001
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:83082

11 more fixed, 32 more not affected in the full advisory

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
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
46 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.53% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 45% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-core/security/advisories/GHSA-7hhh-6rmp-j9qf referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
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-core
>=2.19.0, <2.21.7
>=2.22.0, <2.22.3
>=2.8.0, <2.18.11
2.21.7
2.22.3
2.18.11
maven tools.jackson.core:jackson-core
>=3.0.0, <3.1.7
>=3.2.0, <3.2.3
3.1.7
3.2.3

Affected products

  • FasterXML jackson-core

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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