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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89425"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-23T02:06:10.571Z"
updatedAt: "2026-09-23T14:00:42.979Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89425"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89425.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89425"
title: "jackson-core: UTF8DataInputJsonParser._reportInvalidToken() does not honor maxErrorTokenLength, allowing unbounded StringBuilder growth"
summary: "UTF8DataInputJsonParser._reportInvalidToken() in FasterXML jackson-core builds the offending-token text for its error message by appending Java identifier characters to a StringBuilder in a loop that has no upper bound. Unlike the three sibling parser implementations, including UTF8StreamJsonParser, it never consults ErrorReportConfiguration.getMaxErrorTokenLength() (default 256). A malformed token supplied to a parser created through JsonFactory.createParser(DataInput) is therefore accumulated in full. No StreamReadConstraints setting mitigates this: maxDocumentLength cannot be applied to DataInput sources at all, and maxStringLength does not cover this path because the accumulation bypasses ReadConstrainedTextBuffer. The reporter measured a 20,000,109-character exception message from a 20-million-character malformed token on the DataInput path, against 367 characters for identical input on the InputStream path. Scaling the payload drives the StringBuilder, which also incurs byte-to-char expansion and internal array doubling, to many times the raw payload size and can trigger OutOfMemoryError for the whole JVM. UTF8DataInputJsonParser was introduced in 2.8.0 together with createParser(DataInput); releases before 2.8.0 do not contain the affected class."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"2.8.0","status":"affected","versionType":"maven","lessThanOrEqual":"2.18.10"},{"version":"2.19.0","status":"affected","versionType":"maven","lessThanOrEqual":"2.21.6"},{"version":"2.22.0","status":"affected","versionType":"maven","lessThanOrEqual":"2.22.2"}],"vendor":"FasterXML","product":"jackson-core","packageName":"com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core","collectionURL":"https://repo1.maven.org/maven2","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"maven","lessThanOrEqual":"3.1.6"},{"version":"3.2.0","status":"affected","versionType":"maven","lessThanOrEqual":"3.2.2"}],"vendor":"FasterXML","product":"jackson-core","packageName":"tools.jackson.core:jackson-core","collectionURL":"https://repo1.maven.org/maven2","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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