What is CVE-2023-1436?

CVE-2023-1436 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Jettison, classified under Uncontrolled Recursion. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2023-03-22.

How severe is CVE-2023-1436?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Jettison

CVE-2023-1436

An infinite recursion is triggered in Jettison when constructing a JSONArray from a Collection that contains a self-reference in one of its elements. This leads to a StackOverflowError exception being thrown.

Published 2023-03-22 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.010 (61.7th percentile), scored 2026-10-01.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 62nd percentile — 61.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.010 · newest: 0.010 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Jettison — versions 0
Jettison Project

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-674 — Uncontrolled Recursion

References

research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/jettison-json-array-dos-xray-427911/ (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-1436?: CVE-2023-1436 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Jettison, classified under Uncontrolled Recursion. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2023-03-22.
How severe is CVE-2023-1436?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.