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TI-2023-01356 Aliases CVE-2023-1436GHSA-q6g2-g7f3-rr83

Infinite recursion in Jettison leads to denial of service when creating a crafted JSONArray

Priority HIGH 72CWE-674Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · None · High
Fix status
Partial Red Hat: 16 fixed, 17 without a fix

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA, GitHub and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-674.

Summary

An infinite recursion is triggered in Jettison when constructing a JSONArray from a Collection that contains a self-reference in one of its elements. This leads to a StackOverflowError exception being thrown.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.01009 63rd percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by NVD
Fix Partial jettison (jettison): 1.5.4org.codehaus.jettison:jettison (Maven): 1.5.4Red Hat: 16 advisoriesRed Hat: 16 fixed, 17 without a fix

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
Poc
Automatable
Yes
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
Jettisonjettisonbefore 1.5.41.5.4Patch availableCNA
—org.codehaus.jettison:jettison (Maven)before 1.5.41.5.4Patch availableGHSA-q6g2-g7f3-rr83
  • jettison VendorJettison Affected before 1.5.4 Fixed in 1.5.4 Patch available CNA
  • org.codehaus.jettison:jettison (Maven) Vendor— Affected before 1.5.4 Fixed in 1.5.4 Patch available GHSA-q6g2-g7f3-rr83

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:jettison_project:jettison:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*before 1.5.4VulnerableJettison
  • cpe:2.3:a:jettison_project:jettison:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 1.5.4 Vulnerable ·Jettison

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA jettison (jettison) Fixed in 1.5.4
  • Fix · GHSA-q6g2-g7f3-rr83 org.codehaus.jettison:jettison (Maven) Fixed in 1.5.4 Advisory →

Red Hat 16 advisories

  • RHSA-2024:1027 Released 2024-02-28 · Red Hat rating Moderate
    Migration Toolkit for Applications security update
    • MTA 6.2 for RHEL 8 mta/mta-hub-rhel9, mta/mta-operator-bundle, mta/mta-pathfinder-rhel9 +3
  • RHSA-2023:7670 Released 2023-12-06 · Red Hat rating Moderate
    Migration Toolkit for Runtimes bug fix, enhancement and security update
    • Migration Toolkit for Runtimes 1 on RHEL 8 mtr/mtr-web-container-rhel8
  • RHSA-2023:4924 Released 2023-08-31 · Red Hat rating Important
    Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6.5 security update
    • Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6.5
Show 13 more Red Hat advisories
  • RHSA-2023:4918 Released 2023-08-31 · Red Hat rating Important
    Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6.5 security update on RHEL 7
    • Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6 for RHEL 7 Server rh-sso7-keycloak-18.0.9-1.redhat_00001.1.el7sso, rh-sso7-keycloak-server-18.0.9-1.redhat_00001.1.el7sso
  • RHSA-2023:4920 Released 2023-08-31 · Red Hat rating Important
    Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6.5 security update on RHEL 9
    • Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6 for RHEL 9 rh-sso7-keycloak-18.0.9-1.redhat_00001.1.el9sso, rh-sso7-keycloak-server-18.0.9-1.redhat_00001.1.el9sso
  • RHSA-2023:4919 Released 2023-08-31 · Red Hat rating Important
    Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6.5 security update on RHEL 8
    • Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6 for RHEL 8 rh-sso7-keycloak-18.0.9-1.redhat_00001.1.el8sso, rh-sso7-keycloak-server-18.0.9-1.redhat_00001.1.el8sso
  • RHSA-2023:4921 Released 2023-08-31 · Red Hat rating Important
    Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6.5 for OpenShift image enhancement and security update
    • Middleware Containers for OpenShift rh-sso-7/sso76-openshift-rhel8
  • RHSA-2023:4507 Released 2023-08-07 · Red Hat rating Important
    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform security update
    • Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.4 for RHEL 9 eap7-jettison-1.5.4-1.redhat_00002.1.el9eap, eap7-undertow-2.2.25-3.SP3_redhat_00001.1.el9eap, eap7-wildfly-7.4.12-3.GA_redhat_00003.1.el9eap +5
  • RHSA-2023:4506 Released 2023-08-07 · Red Hat rating Important
    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform security update
    • Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.4 for RHEL 8 eap7-jettison-1.5.4-1.redhat_00002.1.el8eap, eap7-undertow-2.2.25-3.SP3_redhat_00001.1.el8eap, eap7-wildfly-7.4.12-3.GA_redhat_00003.1.el8eap +5
  • RHSA-2023:4505 Released 2023-08-07 · Red Hat rating Important
    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform security update
    • Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.4 for RHEL 7 Server eap7-jettison-1.5.4-1.redhat_00002.1.el7eap, eap7-undertow-2.2.25-3.SP3_redhat_00001.1.el7eap, eap7-wildfly-7.4.12-3.GA_redhat_00003.1.el7eap +4
  • RHSA-2023:4509 Released 2023-08-07 · Red Hat rating Important
    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.12 security update
    • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform com.fasterxml.jackson.core.jackson-databind-2.12.7.redhat-00003.jar, io.undertow.undertow-core-2.2.25.SP3-redhat-00001.jar, org.codehaus.jettison.jettison-1.5.4.redhat-00002.jar
  • RHSA-2023:3667 Released 2023-06-19 · Red Hat rating Moderate
    Red Hat Integration Camel Extensions for Quarkus 2.13.3 security update
    • RHINT Camel-Q 2.13.3
  • RHSA-2023:3663 Released 2023-06-19 · Red Hat rating Important
    jenkins and jenkins-2-plugins security update
    • OpenShift Developer Tools and Services for OCP 4.11 for RHEL 8 jenkins-2-plugins-4.11.1686831822-1.el8, jenkins-2.401.1.1686831596-3.el8
  • RHSA-2023:3641 Released 2023-06-15 · Red Hat rating Important
    Red Hat Integration Camel for Spring Boot 3.18.3 Patch 2 release
    • RHINT Camel-Springboot 3.18.3.P2
  • RHSA-2023:3622 Released 2023-06-15 · Red Hat rating Important
    jenkins and jenkins-2-plugins security update
    • OpenShift Developer Tools and Services for OCP 4.13 jenkins-2-plugins-4.13.1686680473-1.el8, jenkins-2.401.1.1686680404-3.el8
  • RHSA-2023:2100 Released 2023-05-03 · Red Hat rating Important
    Red Hat Integration Camel for Spring Boot 3.20.1 security update
    • RHINT Camel-Springboot 3.20.1

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

ProductStatusPlan or fix
Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShiftAffectedNo fix yet
Red Hat Decision Manager 7AffectedNo fix planned: Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7AffectedNo fix planned: Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8AffectedNo fix planned: Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9AffectedNo fix planned: Will not fix
Red Hat Fuse 7AffectedNo fix planned: Out of support scope
Red Hat Integration Camel K 1AffectedNo fix yet
Red Hat Integration Camel Quarkus 2AffectedNo fix yet
Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7AffectedNo fix planned: Out of support scope
Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6AffectedNo fix planned: Out of support scope
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6AffectedNo fix planned: Out of support scope
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion PackAffectedNo fix planned: Will not fix
Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6AffectedNo fix planned: Out of support scope
Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6AffectedNo fix planned: Out of support scope
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11AffectedNo fix planned: Out of support scope
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4AffectedNo fix yet
Red Hat Process Automation 7AffectedNo fix planned: Out of support scope
MTA 6.2 for RHEL 8Fixed RHSA-2024:1027
Middleware Containers for OpenShiftFixed RHSA-2023:4921
Migration Toolkit for Runtimes 1 on RHEL 8Fixed RHSA-2023:7670
OpenShift Developer Tools and Services for OCP 4.11 for RHEL 8Fixed RHSA-2023:3663
OpenShift Developer Tools and Services for OCP 4.13Fixed RHSA-2023:3622
RHINT Camel-Q 2.13.3Fixed RHSA-2023:3667
RHINT Camel-Springboot 3.18.3.P2Fixed RHSA-2023:3641
RHINT Camel-Springboot 3.20.1Fixed RHSA-2023:2100
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.4 for RHEL 7 ServerFixed RHSA-2023:4505
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.4 for RHEL 8Fixed RHSA-2023:4506
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.4 for RHEL 9Fixed RHSA-2023:4507
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Fixed RHSA-2023:4509
Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6 for RHEL 7 ServerFixed RHSA-2023:4918
Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6 for RHEL 8Fixed RHSA-2023:4919
Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6 for RHEL 9Fixed RHSA-2023:4920
Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.6.5Fixed RHSA-2023:4924
Not affected: 12 products
  • A-MQ Clients 2
  • Migration Toolkit for Runtimes 1 on RHEL 8
  • OpenShift Developer Tools and Services for OCP 4.11 for RHEL 8
  • OpenShift Developer Tools and Services for OCP 4.13
  • Red Hat Data Grid 8
  • Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.4 for RHEL 7 Server
  • Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.4 for RHEL 8
  • Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.4 for RHEL 9
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8
  • Red Hat Satellite 6
  • streams for Apache Kafka

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-1436
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-q6g2-g7f3-rr83
  3. 2026-11-05 Affected versions changed · Red Hat

References

Exploit 1

Advisory 1

Other 5

  • TI-2022-22553 Jettison before v1.5.2 was discovered to contain a stack overflow via the map parameter. CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2022-22549 A stack overflow in Jettison before v1.5.2 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via crafted JSON data. CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2022-19039 Stack Buffer Overflow in Jettison CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2022-19038 Stack Buffer Overflow in Jettison CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5

Sources

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