Dave Gamble cJSON version 1.7.2 and earlier contains a CWE-415: Double Free vulnerability in cJSON library that can result in Possible crash or RCE. This attack appear to be exploitable via Attacker must be able to force victim to print JSON data, depending on how cJSON library is used this could be either local or over a network. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.7.3.
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https://github.com/DaveGamble/cJSON/issues/241 |
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CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:davegamble:cjson:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2018-08-20T20:00:00Z
Updated: 2024-09-17T03:43:41.890Z
Reserved: 2018-08-20T00:00:00Z
Link: CVE-2018-1000216

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Status : Modified
Published: 2018-08-20T20:29:00.610
Modified: 2025-07-22T18:17:45.530
Link: CVE-2018-1000216

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