Bug 2539084 (CVE-2026-89425) - CVE-2026-89425 com.fasterxml.jackson.core/jackson-core: Jackson-core: Denial of Service via unbounded StringBuilder growth during malformed token processing
Summary: CVE-2026-89425 com.fasterxml.jackson.core/jackson-core: Jackson-core: Denial ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-89425
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2539285 2539286 2539287
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2026-09-23 02:31 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-23 09:33 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-23 02:31:20 UTC
UTF8DataInputJsonParser._reportInvalidToken() in FasterXML jackson-core builds the offending-token text for its error message by appending Java identifier characters to a StringBuilder in a loop that has no upper bound. Unlike the three sibling parser implementations, including UTF8StreamJsonParser, it never consults ErrorReportConfiguration.getMaxErrorTokenLength() (default 256). A malformed token supplied to a parser created through JsonFactory.createParser(DataInput) is therefore accumulated in full. No StreamReadConstraints setting mitigates this: maxDocumentLength cannot be applied to DataInput sources at all, and maxStringLength does not cover this path because the accumulation bypasses ReadConstrainedTextBuffer. The reporter measured a 20,000,109-character exception message from a 20-million-character malformed token on the DataInput path, against 367 characters for identical input on the InputStream path. Scaling the payload drives the StringBuilder, which also incurs byte-to-char expansion and internal array doubling, to many times the raw payload size and can trigger OutOfMemoryError for the whole JVM. UTF8DataInputJsonParser was introduced in 2.8.0 together with createParser(DataInput); releases before 2.8.0 do not contain the affected class.


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