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Advisory details: gitlab / maven/com.fasterxml.jackson.core/jackson-databind/CVE-2020-36518
Advisory ID gitlab/maven/com.fasterxml.jackson.core/jackson-databind/CVE-2020-36518
Aliases CVE-2020-36518
GHSA-57j2-w4cx-62h2
Summary Uncontrolled Resource Consumption jackson-databind before 2.13.0 allows a Java StackOverflow exception and denial of service via a large depth of nested objects.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
cvssv2 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/com.fasterxml.jackson.core/jackson-databind/CVE-2020-36518.yml
cvssv3.1 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/com.fasterxml.jackson.core/jackson-databind/CVE-2020-36518.yml
Reference id Reference type URL
https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/commit/fcfc4998ec23f0b1f7f8a9521c2b317b6c25892b
https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/issues/2816
CVE-2020-36518 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36518
GHSA-57j2-w4cx-62h2 https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-57j2-w4cx-62h2
No exploits are available.

No EPSS data available for this advisory.

Patch URL
There are no known patches.
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Found at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/com.fasterxml.jackson.core/jackson-databind/CVE-2020-36518.yml
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/com.fasterxml.jackson.core/jackson-databind/CVE-2020-36518.yml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none

Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-08-27T20:34:26Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2020/36xxx/CVE-2020-36518.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2020-36518

View SSVC decision tree 
[{'Exploitation': 'none'},
 {'Automatable': 'yes'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'partial'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]