CVE-2024-21634 is a denial-of-service vulnerability in Amazon Ion, a Java implementation of the Ion data notation, affecting versions prior to 1.10.5. An attacker can craft malicious Ion data that, when processed by vulnerable applications, triggers a StackOverflowError. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and high impact on availability. While there are no known public exploits or Metasploit modules, it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, including a mention in an article about Atlassian patches. Organizations are advised to update to ion-java 1.10.5 or avoid processing untrusted Ion data as a workaround.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.10.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:amazon:ion:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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