The jackson-databind saga continues and today 4 new vulnerabilities have made their way into the NVD database. Still not “officially” confirmed, they are there to stay, as you can probably guess looking at the project bug report:

• CVE-2018-14718: remote code execution via slf4j-ext
• CVE-2018-14719: remote code execution via blaze-ds-opt
• CVE-2018-14720: exfiltration/XXE with only JDK classes (some JDK versions)
• CVE-2018-14721: exfiltration/SSRF with axis2-jaxws

Things are becoming quite tricky as the project is trying to keep up with four different main codebases (2.6.x, 2.7.x, 2.8.x, 2.9.x) plus the new development in progress. This is all about the ability to use the deserialisation mechanism of Jackson in order to perform mischiefs using, in a very creative way, some standard classes (see an example exploit documented a while ago on my personal blog) and all due to a blacklisting mechanism that continues to require updates.

You can also read a full account of the problem here, but for the time being, I would suggest using Gson instead, at least until a 3.x version of Jackson is out.