Skip to content
Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2018-1000873 json

Moderate severity vulnerability that affects com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype:jackson-datatype-jsr353

published 2018-12-20 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-h4x4-5qp2-wp46 , EUVD-2018-0811

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.8%
EPSS 4.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Fasterxml Jackson version Before 2.9.8 contains a CWE-20: Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Jackson-Modules-Java8 that can result in Causes a denial-of-service (DoS). This attack appear to be exploitable via The victim deserializes malicious input, specifically very large values in the nanoseconds field of a time value. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.9.8.

Patch / fix

  • maven com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype:jackson-datatype-jsr310 2.9.8
  • fasterxml jackson-modules-java8 2.9.8
  • oracle global_lifecycle_management_opatch 11.2.0.3.23, 12.2.0.1.19, 13.9.4.2.1
  • oracle nosql_database 19.3.12

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-2018-1000873 updated cvss 5.3

jackson-modules-java8: DoS due to an Improper Input Validation

  • Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 jackson-databind
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 jackson-datatype-jsr310
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4 jackson-databind
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Virtualization 4 rhvm-appliance
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Fuse 7.8.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:5568
  • Red Hat BPM Suite 6 jackson-databind Red Hat Decision Manager 7 jackson-datatype-jsr310 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 jackson-databind, jackson-databind-javadoc Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6 jackson-databind Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 jackson-databind Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 jackson-databind
    +11 more products
    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 jackson-databind Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 jackson-databind Red Hat JBoss Fuse Integration Service 2 jackson-databind Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3 Core Server Core Server Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes jackson-databind Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 jackson-databind Red Hat Process Automation 7 jackson-datatype-jsr310 Red Hat Satellite 6 jackson-databind Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 jackson-datatype-jsr310 Red Hat Software Collections rh-maven35-jackson-databind, rh-eclipse46-jackson-databind, rh-maven35-jackson-databind-javadoc, rh-eclipse46-jackson-databind-javadoc Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager jackson-databind
    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

Exploit prediction

4.76% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-modules-java8/issues/90 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype:jackson-datatype-jsr310
<2.9.8
2.9.8

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
Technology feeds

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.