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CVE-2018-1000215

Dave Gamble cJSON version 1.7.6 and earlier contains a CWE-772 vulnerability in ...

High CVSS 7.5

Overview

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.

CWE: CWE-772 Published: 2018-08-20T20:29:00.487
Risk analysis

This vulnerability is rated 🟠 HIGH.

  • CVSS: 7.5 (HIGH)
  • Detected tags: dos (tag impact: LOW)

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