🛡️ CVE-2026-54514 — jackson-databind

🟡 CVSS 5.3 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-918 NVD
5.3
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

jackson-databind: InetSocketAddress deserialization triggers eager DNS resolution (SSRF)

Summary

JDKFromStringDeserializer constructed InetSocketAddress with new InetSocketAddress(host, port), which performs eager DNS name resolution for hostname inputs at deserialization time. An application that binds untrusted JSON into a type containing an InetSocketAddress field issues an attacker-chosen DNS query during readValue, before any application-level validation or connect logic. The fix uses InetSocketAddress.createUnresolved(host, port), deferring DNS to an explicit connect.

Impact

An attacker controlling JSON deserialized into an InetSocketAddress-bearing type can force outbound DNS lookups for attacker-chosen hostnames at deserialization time (SSRF / DNS-based out-of-band interaction / internal-resolver probing), purely from binding.

Affected / Patched (verified via git tag --contains on 1f5a103)

  • 2.18 line: >= 2.18.0, < 2.18.8 -> fixed in 2.18.8
  • 2.19-2.21 line: >= 2.19.0, < 2.21.4 -> fixed in 2.21.4
  • 3.x line: >= 3.0.0, < 3.1.4 -> fixed in 3.1.4

Severity / CWE

Maintainer: minor. Reporter: LOW. CWE-918 (SSRF).

Upstream fix

FasterXML/jackson-databind#5951 ("Improve InetSocketAddress deserialization"). Released 2026-06-04 in 2.18.8 / 2.21.4 / 3.1.4.

Credits

Omkhar Arasaratnam (@omkhar) - finder.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-54514 is classified as CWE-918: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF). The server fetches a URL supplied by the caller, which can be pointed at internal systems it alone can reach.

Affected software

CVE-2026-54514 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind (from 3.0.0 up to 3.1.4)
  • jackson-databind (from 3.0.0 up to 3.1.4)
  • tools.jackson.core:jackson-databind (from 3.0.0 up to 3.1.4)

Timeline and source

Published on 23 June 2026 and last revised on 20 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)

Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 5.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-918
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-06-23
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-20

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind 3.0.0 3.1.4
jackson-databind 3.0.0 3.1.4
tools.jackson.core:jackson-databind 3.0.0 3.1.4

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