CVE-2026-67215 (GCVE-0-2026-67215)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-29 13:32 – Updated: 2026-07-29 15:59
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
cJSON JSON Patch copy/add Uncontrolled Recursion Stack Exhaustion
Summary
cJSON through 1.7.19 is vulnerable to uncontrolled recursion leading to stack exhaustion when an untrusted RFC 6902 JSON Patch is applied via cJSONUtils_ApplyPatches() or cJSONUtils_ApplyPatchesCaseSensitive(). A patch containing add and copy operations grafts duplicated subtrees to amplify document depth beyond the parser's nesting limit: cJSON_Delete() recurses with no depth bound, and the cJSON_Duplicate() guard CJSON_CIRCULAR_LIMIT is set to 10000, ten times the parser's 1000-level nesting limit and high enough to overflow a default thread stack. An attacker who can supply the patch document can crash the process, resulting in denial of service.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-07-29 14:32 UTC
CWE
- CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion
Assigner
References
4 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://joshua.hu/cjson-json-parser-cve-vulnerabilities | exploit |
| https://github.com/DaveGamble/cJSON/blob/v1.7.19/… | technical-description |
| https://github.com/DaveGamble/cJSON/blob/v1.7.19/… | technical-description |
| https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cjson-json-p… | third-party-advisory |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DaveGamble | cJSON |
Affected:
0 , ≤ 1.7.19
(semver)
cpe:2.3:a:davegamble:cjson:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Date Public
2026-07-25 00:00
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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