CVE-2023-26819 (GCVE-0-2023-26819)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-04-19 00:00
Modified
2025-11-03 19:28
Severity ?
2.9 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-440 - Expected Behavior Violation
Summary
cJSON 1.7.15 might allow a denial of service via a crafted JSON document such as {"a": true, "b": [ null,9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999912345678901234567]}.
References
Impacted products
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cJSON Project cJSON Version: 1.7.15   ≤
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