CVE-2026-59990

high

Description

Jawn is an open source JSON parser. Prior to 1.7.0, Jawn parse methods accept arbitrarily deep JSON array and object nesting without a depth limit, allowing a remote attacker who can submit untrusted JSON to grow parser contexts until the JVM heap is exhausted. The resulting java.lang.OutOfMemoryError is a fatal Scala error that is not ordinarily handled by scala.util.Try or cats.effect.IO, causing denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 1.7.0.

References

https://github.com/typelevel/jawn/security/advisories/GHSA-cc4v-rvgp-2pf3

https://github.com/typelevel/jawn/releases/tag/v1.7.0

https://github.com/typelevel/jawn/commit/f6ace7e0db715de1a8c4618bed9378333a5c2214

https://github.com/typelevel/jawn/commit/93ac93e9c992c11b4c03d5455d8551f9fb24da1b

https://github.com/typelevel/jawn/commit/6219666641f9408498f85868f835e17bd8a72fed

https://github.com/typelevel/jawn/commit/191cb3a44e77f1afab439ee636bf66bdf3c54a04

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-23

Updated: 2026-09-23

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00623