CVE-2020-27196

mediumpriority · track · 30EPSS 0.014 · 72 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.40% (72nd) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

8 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

An issue was discovered in PlayJava in Play Framework 2.6.0 through 2.8.2. The body parsing of HTTP requests eagerly parses a payload given a Content-Type header. A deep JSON structure sent to a valid POST endpoint (that may or may not expect JSON payloads) causes a StackOverflowError and Denial of Service.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.16.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-787USprimaryCWE-787US

affected products (8)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
lightbend play framework≤ 2.6.25nvdUScpe:2.3:a:lightbend:play_framework:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
lightbend play framework2.7.0 → 2.7.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:lightbend:play_framework:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
lightbend play framework2.8.0 → 2.8.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:lightbend:play_framework:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Maven com.typesafe.play:play2.6.0 → 2.7.6osvUSpkg:maven/com.typesafe.play/play
Maven com.typesafe.play:play2.8.0 → 2.8.3osvUSpkg:maven/com.typesafe.play/play
Maven com.typesafe.play:play-java2.6.0 → 2.7.6osvUSpkg:maven/com.typesafe.play/play-java
Maven com.typesafe.play:play-java2.8.0 → 2.8.3osvUSpkg:maven/com.typesafe.play/play-java

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-h48w-c35p-6m8xOut-of-bounds Write in Play Framework2022-02-10ghsa · osvUS
An issue was discovered in PlayJava in Play Framework 2.6.0 through 2.8.2. The body parsing of HTTP requests eagerly parses a payload given a Content-Type header. A deep JSON structure sent to a valid POST endpoint (that may or may not expect JSON payloads) causes a StackOverflowError and Denial of Service.

also known as (3)

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2020-11-06modified 2026-06-17

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references (7)

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