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Ion Java StackOverflow vulnerability

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jan 3, 2024 in amazon-ion/ion-java • Updated Apr 12, 2024

Package

maven com.amazon.ion:ion-java (Maven)

Affected versions

< 1.10.5

Patched versions

1.10.5
maven software.amazon.ion:ion-java (Maven)
< 1.10.5
None

Description

Impact

A potential denial-of-service issue exists in ion-java for applications that use ion-java to:

  • Deserialize Ion text encoded data, or
  • Deserialize Ion text or binary encoded data into the IonValue model and then invoke certain IonValue methods on that in-memory representation.

An actor could craft Ion data that, when loaded by the affected application and/or processed using the IonValue model, results in a StackOverflowError originating from the ion-java library.

Impacted versions: <1.10.5

Patches

The patch is included in ion-java >= 1.10.5.

Workarounds

Do not load data which originated from an untrusted source or that could have been tampered with. Only load data you trust.


If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, we ask that you contact AWS/Amazon Security via our vulnerability reporting page [1] or directly via email to aws-security@amazon.com. Please do not create a public GitHub issue.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/security/vulnerability-reporting

References

@popematt popematt published to amazon-ion/ion-java Jan 3, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jan 3, 2024
Reviewed Jan 3, 2024
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 3, 2024
Last updated Apr 12, 2024

Severity

High
7.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-21634

GHSA ID

GHSA-264p-99wq-f4j6

Source code

Credits

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