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.
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First Time appeared Davegamble
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CPEs cpe:2.3:a:cjson_project:cjson:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:davegamble:cjson:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Cjson Project
Cjson Project cjson
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-08-20T20:00:00Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T20:52:02.538Z

Reserved: 2018-08-20T00:00:00Z

Link: CVE-2018-1000215

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-08-20T20:29:00.487

Modified: 2025-07-22T18:17:45.530

Link: CVE-2018-1000215

cve-icon Redhat

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