Skip to content

Navigation Menu

Sign in
Appearance settings

Search code, repositories, users, issues, pull requests...

Provide feedback

We read every piece of feedback, and take your input very seriously.

Saved searches

Use saved searches to filter your results more quickly

Sign up
Appearance settings

Commit 69d7ed3

Browse files
committed
Add security considerations
1 parent 11a0063 commit 69d7ed3

File tree

2 files changed

+10
-2
lines changed

2 files changed

+10
-2
lines changed

‎jsonschema-core.xml‎

Lines changed: 3 additions & 0 deletions
Original file line numberDiff line numberDiff line change
@@ -644,6 +644,9 @@ Link: </alice>; rel="profile", </bob>; rel="profile"
644644
Validators should take care that the parsing of schemas doesn't consume excessive system resources.
645645
Validators MUST NOT fall into an infinite loop.
646646
</t>
647+
<t>
648+
Individual JSON Schema vocabularies are liable to also have their own security considerations. Consult the respective specifications for more information.
649+
</t>
647650
</section>
648651

649652
<section title="IANA Considerations">

‎jsonschema-schema.xml‎

Lines changed: 7 additions & 2 deletions
Original file line numberDiff line numberDiff line change
@@ -739,8 +739,13 @@
739739

740740
<section title="Security considerations">
741741
<t>
742-
JSON Schema validation does not have any additional security considerations than
743-
those defined by the JSON Schema core specification.
742+
JSON Schema validation defines a vocabulary for JSON Schema core and conserns all the security considerations listed there.
743+
</t>
744+
<t>
745+
JSON Schema validation allows the use of Regular Expressions, which have numerous different (often incompatible) implementations.
746+
Some implementations allow the embedding of arbritrary code, which is outside the scope of JSON Schema and MUST NOT be permitted.
747+
Regular expressions can often also be crafted to be extremely expensive to compute (with so-called "catastrophic backtracking"),
748+
resulting in a denial-of-service attack.
744749
</t>
745750
</section>
746751

0 commit comments

Comments
(0)

AltStyle によって変換されたページ (->オリジナル) /