CVE-2025-40929 (GCVE-0-2025-40929)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-08 15:08
Modified
2025-09-08 19:25
Severity ?
5.6 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Summary
Cpanel::JSON::XS before version 4.40 for Perl has an integer buffer overflow causing a segfault when parsing crafted JSON, enabling denial-of-service attacks or other unspecified impact
References
9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441ehttps://github.com/rurban/Cpanel-JSON-XS/commit/378236219eaa35742c3962ecbdee364903b0a1f2.patch
9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441ehttps://metacpan.org/release/RURBAN/Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.39/source/XS.xs#L713
9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441ehttps://metacpan.org/release/RURBAN/Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.40/changes
Impacted products
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