jsonij vulnerable to stack exhaustion

published 2023-06-14 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-66gv-5m8q-rrjc , EUVD-2023-1710

cvss: 7.5; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.8%; EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 58%
public exploits: 0; none known

An issue was discovered jmarsden/jsonij thru 0.5.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impacts via crafted object that uses cyclic dependencies.

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: Proof of concept is public
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 22 mo ago (2025-01-06)

Exploit prediction

0.84% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 58% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

bitbucket.org https://bitbucket.org/jmarsden/jsonij/issues/7/stack-overflow-error-caused-by-jsonij referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CISA ADP	3.1	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD	3.1	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA	3.1	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub	3.1	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
maven	cc.plural:jsonij	<=0.5.2	no fix listed

Classification

Weakness

CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

bitbucket.org /jmarsden/jsonij/issues/7/stack-overflow-error-caused-by-jsonij
web, exploit, third-party-advisory
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2023-34614
advisory
bitbucket.org /jmarsden/jsonij
package

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

Summary