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SCA: security update for com.typesafe.play:play, com.typesafe.play:play-java (GHSA-h48w-c35p-6m8x)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 415457

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - An issue was discovered in PlayJava in Play Framework 2.6.0 through 2.8.2. The body parsing of HTTP
 requests eagerly parses a payload given a Content-Type header. A deep JSON structure sent to a valid POST
 endpoint (that may or may not expect JSON payloads) causes a StackOverflowError and Denial of Service.
 (CVE-2020-27196)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h48w-c35p-6m8x

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 415457

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-27196

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/10/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/6/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-27196

cwe: CWE-787