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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CPEs cpe:2.3:a:cjson_project:cjson:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:davegamble:cjson:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Cjson Project cjson
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cve-icon MITRE

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

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-08-20T20:29:00.610

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

Link: CVE-2018-1000216

cve-icon Redhat

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