Last updated 25 August 2025

When parsing a JSON payload with deeply nested JSON structures, the parser in Apache Mesos versions pre-1.4.x, 1.4.0 to 1.4.2, 1.5.0 to 1.5.1, 1.6.0 to 1.6.1, and 1.7.0 might overflow the stack due to unbounded recursion. A malicious actor can therefore cause a denial of service of Mesos masters rendering the Mesos-controlled cluster inoperable.

A flaw was found in Docker image running under root user, where it is possible to overwrite the init helper binary of the container runtime or the command executor in Apache Mesos. A malicious user could use this flaw to gain root-level code execution on the host.