CVE-2026-62295: high-severity vulnerability in hapifhir ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.r5
HAPI FHIR: JSON utility parser unbounded recursion causes StackOverflow denial of service
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.5epss 0.5%
HAPI FHIR is a complete implementation of the HL7 FHIR standard for healthcare interoperability in Java. Prior to 6.9.11, the JSON utility parser in org.hl7.fhir.utilities.json.parser.JsonParser enforces no maximum nesting depth for arrays or objects. As a result, a small but deeply nested, syntactically valid FHIR JSON document can trigger unbounded readArray() or readObject() recursion, raising a StackOverflowError before structural validation runs. An attacker who can submit JSON resources for validation can thus crash the request thread, and services that do not isolate StackOverflowError safely may experience worker loss or process instability — a denial-of-service condition. This issue is fixed in version 6.9.11.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
hapifhir · ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.r5hapifhir · ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.utilitieshapifhir · ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.validationhapifhir · ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.validation.clihapifhir · org.hl7.fhir.coreRelated CVEs — hapifhir ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.r5
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