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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2024-22871 json

Reading specially crafted serializable objects from an untrusted source may cause an infinite loop and denial of service

published 2024-02-29 2 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also EUVD-2024-0741 , GHSA-vr64-r9qj-h27f

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 74%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue in Clojure versions 1.20 to 1.12.0-alpha5 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) via the clojure.core$partial$fn__5920 function.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.clojure:clojure 1.11.2, 1.12.0-alpha9
  • clojure clojure 1.11.2, 1.12.0-alpha9
  • org.clojure clojure 1.11.2, 1.12.0-alpha9
  • clojure Debian 14, Debian 13 1.11.2-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-22871

  • clojure openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.11.2.1446-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:13763-1

  • clojure Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +3 more 1.11.2-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2024-22871

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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-2024-22871 updated

clojure: denial of service (DoS) via the clojure.core$partial$fn__5920 function.

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

1.53% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 74% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • hackmd.io https://hackmd.io/%40fe1w0/rymmJGida 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
GitHub 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

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.clojure:clojure
>=1.7.0, <1.11.2
>=1.12.0-alpha1, <1.12.0-alpha9
1.11.2
1.12.0-alpha9

Affected products

  • clojure clojure

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data

References

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.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.