An issue was discovered in Play Framework 2.8.0 through 2.8.4. Carefully crafted JSON payloads sent as a form field lead to Data Amplification. This affects users migrating from a Play version prior to 2.8.0 that used the Play Java API to serialize classes with protected or private fields to JSON.
{ "github_reviewed_at": "2021-04-09T22:29:34Z", "github_reviewed": true, "nvd_published_at": "2020-12-03T17:15:00Z", "cwe_ids": [ "CWE-20" ], "severity": "LOW" }