CVE-2026-90472
Description
msgpack-java through 0.9.12 contains a stack overflow vulnerability in MessageUnpacker.unpackValue() that recursively deserializes arrays and maps without nesting depth limits. Attackers can craft payloads with deeply nested arrays to exhaust the deserializing thread's stack and trigger StackOverflowError, causing per-request deserialization failures.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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References
- https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-java
- https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-java/blob/v0.9.12/msgpack-core/src/main/java/org/msgpack/core/MessageUnpacker.java#L646-L664
- https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-java/issues/1015
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/msgpack-java-through-0.9.12-stack-overflow-via-nested-arrays
CWEs
CWE-674
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
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