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CVE-2026-59990

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2026-09-23 Modified: 2026-09-23

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.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-770

References