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CVE-2016-4303

CVE-2016-4303 PUBLISHED CVSS 9.800000190734863 CRITICAL

The parse_string function in cjson.c in the cJSON library mishandles UTF8/16 strings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a non-hex character in a JSON string, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

EPSS 6.96% · 93.7th percentile

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1
9.800000190734863
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
6.96%
93.7th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTSiperf33.0.11-1, 0

Timeline

  • Jun 8, 2015 CVE Published
  • Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
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