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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.3

CVE-2023-51074 json

json-path Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability

published 2023-12-27 2 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also GHSA-pfh2-hfmq-phg5 , EUVD-2023-3260

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.7%
EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 52%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

json-path v2.8.0 was discovered to contain a stack overflow via the Criteria.parse() method.

Patch / fix

  • maven com.jayway.jsonpath:json-path 2.9.0
  • json-path jayway_jsonpath 2.9.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2023-51074 updated cvss 5.3

json-path: stack-based buffer overflow in Criteria.parse method

  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services jenkins-2-plugins
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Serverless json-path Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4 for Quarkus 3 json-path
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat build of OptaPlanner 8 json-path
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Decision Manager 7 json-path
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Fuse 7 json-path Red Hat Integration Camel Quarkus 2 json-path
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 jenkins-2-plugins
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Process Automation 7 json-path
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat streams for Apache Kafka json-path
    affected: no fix available
show 5 more
  • Red Hat AMQ Streams 2.7.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:3527
  • Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4.4.0 for Spring Boot
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:2707
  • Red Hat RHBOAC camel-quarkus 3 (camel-4.0/quarkus-3.2)
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:0789
  • Red Hat RHINT Camel-Springboot 3.20.5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:0792
  • Red Hat A-MQ Clients 2 json-path Red Hat Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift com.amazon.opendistroforelasticsearch-opendistro_security Red Hat AMQ Broker 7 json-path Red Hat AMQ Clients json-path Red Hat build of Apicurio Registry 2 json-path Red Hat build of Debezium 2 json-path
    +11 more products
    Red Hat Build of Keycloak json-path Red Hat build of Quarkus json-path Red Hat Data Grid 8 json-path Red Hat Integration Camel K 1 json-path Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 json-path Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 json-path, org.keycloak-keycloak-parent org.keycloak-keycloak-parent Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 json-path Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 json-path Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack json-path Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 json-path Red Hat support for Spring Boot json-path
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

0.68% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 52% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/json-path/JsonPath/issues/973 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
GitHub 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven com.jayway.jsonpath:json-path
>=2.2.0, <2.9.0
2.9.0

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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