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CVE-2026-59990 - Jawn: Uncontrolled nesting depth in JSON parser

CVE ID :CVE-2026-59990
Published : Sept. 23, 2026, 6:41 p.m. | 29 minutes ago
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.
Severity: 0.0 | NA
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