CVE-2026-67215

HIGH
MEDIUM Priority: 0.06 BB Relevance: 78/100
Published: 2026-07-29 Modified: 2026-10-23 First seen: 2026-10-29 Status: active

Attack Surface

Network Low Complexity No Auth No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Network
AC: Low
PR: None
UI: None
S: X
AT: None
VC: None
VI: None
VA: High

Description

cJSON through 1.7.19 is vulnerable to uncontrolled recursion leading to stack exhaustion when an untrusted RFC 6902 JSON Patch is applied via cJSONUtils_ApplyPatches() or cJSONUtils_ApplyPatchesCaseSensitive(). A patch containing add and copy operations grafts duplicated subtrees to amplify document depth beyond the parser's nesting limit: cJSON_Delete() recurses with no depth bound, and the cJSON_Duplicate() guard CJSON_CIRCULAR_LIMIT is set to 10000, ten times the parser's 1000-level nesting limit and high enough to overflow a default thread stack. An attacker who can supply the patch document can crash the process, resulting in denial of service.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (1)

VendorProductVersion
davegamble cjson < 1.7.19

Bug Bounty Relevance

78 / 100
✓ Network accessible
✓ No authentication
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

8.7 / 10.0 v4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.70%
Raw Score 0.007000
Percentile 53.1%
Date 2026-10-29

EPSS Trend

2026-10-29
0.00700
2026-10-28
0.00700

Intelligence Sources

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