CVE-2018-1000215

HIGH

davegamble/cjson < 1.7.6 - Denial of Service via Memory Leak in Print Function

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Dave Gamble cJSON version 1.7.6 and earlier contains a CWE-772 vulnerability in cJSON library that can result in Denial of Service (DoS). This attack appear to be exploitable via If the attacker can force the data to be printed and the system is in low memory it can force a leak of memory. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.7.7.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/DaveGamble/cJSON/issues/267

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0168
EPSS Percentile 73.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-772
Status published
Products (1)
davegamble/cjson < 1.7.6
Published Aug 20, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026