fkie_nvd - fkie_cve-2025-40929

fkie_cve-2025-40929

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd

Published

2025-09-08 15:15

Modified

2025-09-08 20:15

Severity ?

5.6 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

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

▼	URL	Tags
	9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e	https://github.com/rurban/Cpanel-JSON-XS/commit/378236219eaa35742c3962ecbdee364903b0a1f2.patch
	9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e	https://metacpan.org/release/RURBAN/Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.39/source/XS.xs#L713
	9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e	https://metacpan.org/release/RURBAN/Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.40/changes

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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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

▼	URL	Tags
	https://metacpan.org/release/RURBAN/Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.39/source/XS.xs#L713	related
	https://metacpan.org/release/RURBAN/Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.40/changes	release-notes
	https://github.com/rurban/Cpanel-JSON-XS/commit/378236219eaa35742c3962ecbdee364903b0a1f2.patch	patch

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	RURBAN	Cpanel::JSON::XS	Version: 0 < 4.40

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