diff --git a/src/main/java/net/woggioni/worth/exception/MaxDepthExceededException.java b/src/main/java/net/woggioni/worth/exception/MaxDepthExceededException.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f8ee8de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/net/woggioni/worth/exception/MaxDepthExceededException.java
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+package net.woggioni.worth.exception;
+
+public class MaxDepthExceededException extends WorthException {
+    public MaxDepthExceededException(String msg) {
+        super(msg);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/main/java/net/woggioni/worth/serialization/ValueParser.java b/src/main/java/net/woggioni/worth/serialization/ValueParser.java
index 1800d39..52d61f7 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/woggioni/worth/serialization/ValueParser.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/woggioni/worth/serialization/ValueParser.java
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package net.woggioni.worth.serialization;
 
 import lombok.RequiredArgsConstructor;
+import net.woggioni.worth.exception.MaxDepthExceededException;
 import net.woggioni.worth.exception.NotImplementedException;
 import net.woggioni.worth.utils.WorthUtils;
 import net.woggioni.worth.value.*;
@@ -13,6 +14,8 @@ import java.io.Reader;
 import java.nio.charset.Charset;
 import java.util.ArrayDeque;
 
+import static net.woggioni.worth.utils.WorthUtils.newThrowable;
+
 public class ValueParser implements Parser {
 
     protected final Value.Configuration cfg;
@@ -64,7 +67,16 @@ public class ValueParser implements Parser {
 
     protected ValueParser(Value.Configuration cfg) {
         this.cfg = cfg;
-        stack = new ArrayDeque<>();
+        stack = new ArrayDeque<>() {
+            @Override
+            public void push(StackLevel stackLevel) {
+                if(size() == cfg.maxDepth) {
+                    throw newThrowable(MaxDepthExceededException.class,
+                        "Objects is too deep, max allowed depth is %d", cfg.maxDepth);
+                }
+                super.push(stackLevel);
+            }
+        };
         stack.push(new ArrayStackLevel());
     }
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/net/woggioni/worth/xface/Value.java b/src/main/java/net/woggioni/worth/xface/Value.java
index 38c1cd8..5a71625 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/woggioni/worth/xface/Value.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/woggioni/worth/xface/Value.java
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 package net.woggioni.worth.xface;
 
+import lombok.Builder;
 import net.woggioni.worth.exception.TypeException;
 import net.woggioni.worth.value.NullValue;
 import net.woggioni.worth.value.ObjectValue;
@@ -85,11 +86,21 @@ public interface Value {
         throw new TypeException("Not an object");
     }
 
+    @Builder
     class Configuration {
-        public ObjectValue.Implementation objectValueImplementation = ObjectValue.Implementation.valueOf(
+
+        @Builder.Default
+        public final ObjectValue.Implementation objectValueImplementation = ObjectValue.Implementation.valueOf(
             System.getProperty(ObjectValue.class.getName() + ".implementation", "TreeMap"));
-        public boolean useReferences = Boolean.valueOf(
+
+        @Builder.Default
+        public final boolean useReferences = Boolean.valueOf(
             System.getProperty(Value.class.getName() + ".useReferences", "false"));
+
+        @Builder.Default
+        public final int maxDepth =
+            Integer.parseInt(System.getProperty(Value.class.getName() + ".maxDepth", "1048576"));
     }
-    Configuration configuration = new Configuration();
+
+    Configuration configuration = Configuration.builder().build();
 }
diff --git a/src/test/java/net/woggioni/worth/serialization/JsonBombTest.java b/src/test/java/net/woggioni/worth/serialization/JsonBombTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..929598d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/net/woggioni/worth/serialization/JsonBombTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+package net.woggioni.worth.serialization;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import lombok.SneakyThrows;
+import net.woggioni.worth.antlr.JSONLexer;
+import net.woggioni.worth.antlr.JSONListenerImpl;
+import net.woggioni.worth.exception.MaxDepthExceededException;
+import net.woggioni.worth.serialization.json.JSONParser;
+import net.woggioni.worth.xface.Parser;
+import net.woggioni.worth.xface.Value;
+import org.antlr.v4.runtime.CharStream;
+import org.antlr.v4.runtime.CharStreams;
+import org.antlr.v4.runtime.CommonTokenStream;
+import org.antlr.v4.runtime.tree.ParseTreeWalker;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+
+public class JsonBombTest {
+
+    private InputStream infiniteJson() {
+        return new InputStream() {
+            int index = 0;
+            final String monomer = "{\"key\":[";
+            @Override
+            public int read() {
+                return (int) monomer.charAt(index++ % monomer.length());
+            }
+        };
+    }
+
+    @Test(expected = StackOverflowError.class)
+    @SneakyThrows
+    public void jackson() {
+        ObjectMapper om = new ObjectMapper();
+        om.readTree(infiniteJson());
+    }
+
+    @Test(expected = MaxDepthExceededException.class)
+    @SneakyThrows
+    public void worth() {
+        Value.Configuration cfg = Value.Configuration.builder().maxDepth(1024).build();
+        Parser parser = JSONParser.newInstance(cfg);
+        parser.parse(infiniteJson());
+    }
+
+    @Test(expected = OutOfMemoryError.class)
+    @SneakyThrows
+    public void antlr() {
+        CharStream inputStream = CharStreams.fromReader(new InputStreamReader(infiniteJson()));
+        JSONLexer lexer = new JSONLexer(inputStream);
+        CommonTokenStream commonTokenStream = new CommonTokenStream(lexer);
+        net.woggioni.worth.antlr.JSONParser parser = new net.woggioni.worth.antlr.JSONParser(commonTokenStream);
+        JSONListenerImpl listener = new JSONListenerImpl();
+        ParseTreeWalker walker = new ParseTreeWalker();
+        walker.walk(listener, parser.json());
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/test/java/net/woggioni/worth/value/ObjectValueImplementationTest.java b/src/test/java/net/woggioni/worth/value/ObjectValueImplementationTest.java
index 96d4925..caab28c 100644
--- a/src/test/java/net/woggioni/worth/value/ObjectValueImplementationTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/net/woggioni/worth/value/ObjectValueImplementationTest.java
@@ -32,8 +32,9 @@ public class ObjectValueImplementationTest {
         ObjectValue obj = ObjectValue.newInstance();
         Assert.assertEquals(expectedClass, obj.getClass());
         mapping.forEach(tuple -> {
-            Value.Configuration cfg = new Value.Configuration();
-            cfg.objectValueImplementation = tuple._1;
+            Value.Configuration cfg = Value.Configuration.builder()
+                    .objectValueImplementation(tuple._1)
+                    .build();
             ObjectValue obj2 = ObjectValue.newInstance(cfg);
             Assert.assertEquals(tuple._2, obj2.getClass());
         });