CVE-2023-53154 (GCVE-0-2023-53154)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-05-23 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
Summary
parse_string in cJSON before 1.7.18 has a heap-based buffer over-read via {"1":1, with no trailing newline if cJSON_ParseWithLength is called.
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cJSON project cJSON Version: 0   ≤
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