Security Bulletin
Summary
Due to the use of the Jackson Data Processor, Rational Performance Tester contains vulnerabilities could result in a potentail denial of service attack. (CVE-2025-52999, CVE-2022-0468)
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2025-52999
DESCRIPTION: jackson-core contains core low-level incremental ("streaming") parser and generator abstractions used by Jackson Data Processor. In versions prior to 2.15.0, if a user parses an input file and it has deeply nested data, Jackson could end up throwing a StackoverflowError if the depth is particularly large. jackson-core 2.15.0 contains a configurable limit for how deep Jackson will traverse in an input document, defaulting to an allowable depth of 1000. jackson-core will throw a StreamConstraintsException if the limit is reached. jackson-databind also benefits from this change because it uses jackson-core to parse JSON inputs. As a workaround, users should avoid parsing input files from untrusted sources.
CWE: CWE-121: Stack-based Buffer Overflow
CVSS Source: security-advisories@github.com
CVSS Base score: 8.7
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X)
ID: WS-2022-0468
DESCRIPTION: The jackson-core package is vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack. The methods in the classes listed below fail to restrict input size when performing numeric type conversions. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by causing the application to deserialize data containing certain numeric types with large values. Deserializing many of the aforementioned objects may cause the application to exhaust all available resources, resulting in a DoS condition.
CWE: CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data
CVSS Source: Mend
CVSS Base score: 8.6
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| Rational Performance Tester | 10.5 |
| Rational Performance Tester | 10.1 |
| Rational Performance Tester | 10.0 |
| Rational Performance Tester | 10.2 |
| Rational Performance Tester | 9.2 |
| Rational Performance Tester | 9.5 |
| DevOps Test Performance | 11.0 - 11.0.6 |
Remediation/Fixes
Customers are strongly encouraged to upgrade to DevOps Test Performance version 11.0.7.
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/devops-test-performance-1107
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Acknowledgement
Change History
02 Jan 2026: Initial Publication
*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.
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Document Information
Modified date:
02 January 2026
Initial Publish date:
02 January 2026
UID
ibm17256160