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OW2 ASM 3.0 before 9.11 Uncontrolled Recursion via ClassWriter.replaceAsmInstructions()

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Severity
medium
Date
Affecting

  • ASM >= 3.0, < 9.11

CWE
  • CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion
CVSS
6.8
CVSS V4 Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Credit
Eric Bruneton
Description
OW2 ASM 3.0 before 9.11 contains an uncontrolled recursion vulnerability in ClassWriter.replaceAsmInstructions() that allows attackers to cause denial of service through crafted class files. Attackers can supply a class with a large method containing many long forward jumps, triggering unbounded toByteArray() recursion and a StackOverflowError during transformation.

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