What is CVE-2020-28923?

CVE-2020-28923 is a low-severity vulnerability in Lightbend Play Framework. CVSS score: 2.7/10. Published 2020-12-03.

How severe is CVE-2020-28923?

Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 2.7 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Lightbend Play Framework

CVE-2020-28923

An issue was discovered in Play Framework 2.8.0 through 2.8.4. Carefully crafted JSON payloads sent as a form field lead to Data Amplification. This affects users migrating from a Play version prior to 2.8.0 that used the Play Java API to serialize classes with protected or private fields to JSON.

EPSS: 0.010 (57.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 2.7 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Lightbend Play_framework
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-28923?: CVE-2020-28923 is a low-severity vulnerability in Lightbend Play Framework. CVSS score: 2.7/10. Published 2020-12-03.
How severe is CVE-2020-28923?: Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 2.7 out of 10.