8.7

CVE-2025-52999: jackson-core Has Potential for StackoverflowError if user parses an input file that contains very deeply nested data

Deferred
AliasesRHSA-2025:11473RHSA-2025:12280RHSA-2025:12281
Published 25-06-2025Last modified 25-06-2025

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-52999 is a high (CVSS 8.7) Stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in fasterxml jackson-core. EPSS estimates a 0.77% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 55.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Prioritisesevere

Severe, CVSS 8.7 (CVE.org); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources; EPSS 1% (FIRST, 03-11-2026)

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
8.7/10
010
High · v4.0 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.77%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 12 · Related 3
RHSA-2025:10092RHSA-2025:10097RHSA-2025:10098RHSA-2025:10104RHSA-2025:10118RHSA-2025:10119

Timeline

  1. 25-06-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 25-06-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

jackson-core contains core low-level incremental ("streaming") parser and generator abstractions used by Jackson Data Processor. In versions prior to 2.15.0, if a user parses an input file and it has deeply nested data, Jackson could end up throwing a StackoverflowError if the depth is particularly large. jackson-core 2.15.0 contains a configurable limit for how deep Jackson will traverse in an input document, defaulting to an allowable depth of 1000. jackson-core will throw a StreamConstraintsException if the limit is reached. jackson-databind also benefits from this change because it uses jackson-core to parse JSON inputs. As a workaround, users should avoid parsing input files from untrusted sources.

CVSS metrics

8 scores · 8 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.77%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

56%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.77% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Chainguard153 products
  • cassandra-4.0< 4.0.18-r1
  • cassandra-4.0-compat< 4.0.18-r1
  • cassandra-4.0-iamguarded-compat< 4.0.18-r1
  • cassandra-4.1< 4.1.9-r1
  • cassandra-4.1-compat< 4.1.9-r1
Redhat29 products
  • apache-commons-collections< 0:3.2.2-10.module+el8.1.0+3366+6dfb954c | < 0:3.2.2-10.module+el8.10.0+20993+d0f024b0
  • apache-commons-lang< 0:2.6-21.module+el8.1.0+3366+6dfb954c | < 0:2.6-21.module+el8.10.0+20993+d0f024b0
  • apache-commons-net< 0:3.6-3.module+el8.3.0+6805+72837426 | < 0:3.6-3.module+el8.10.0+20993+d0f024b0
  • bea-stax< 0:1.2.0-16.module+el8.1.0+3366+6dfb954c | < 0:1.2.0-16.module+el8.10.0+20993+d0f024b0
  • bea-stax-api< 0:1.2.0-16.module+el8.1.0+3366+6dfb954c | < 0:1.2.0-16.module+el8.10.0+20993+d0f024b0
Wolfi14 products
  • cassandra-4.1< 4.1.9-r1
  • cassandra-4.1-compat< 4.1.9-r1
  • cassandra-reaper< 3.8.0-r6
  • celeborn-0.6All versions (No fix recorded)
  • confluent-common-docker< 7.6.0-r16
Com.fasterxml.jackson.core1 product
  • jackson-core< 2.15.0
Debian1 product
  • jackson-core< 2.14.1-2~deb12u1 | < 2.14.1-2~deb13u1 | < 2.14.1-2
Fasterxml1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • jackson-coreAll versions (No fix recorded)

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