Fiche vulnérabilité
CVE-2026-67216 : faille élevée davegamble cjson (CVSS 7.5)
Description
cJSON through 1.7.19 contains an inefficient algorithmic complexity flaw in cJSON_Compare(). When comparing objects, the function recurses into each shared subtree twice, once in each direction, with no depth guard, making the running time exponential in nesting depth. A small, deeply nested document of a few hundred bytes (depth around 40) compared for equality consumes hours of CPU, and the cost roughly doubles with each additional level of nesting. An application that calls cJSON_Compare() on attacker-influenced JSON that is structurally equal to a reference document is exposed to a denial-of-service condition.
En bref
- Sévérité
- Élevée (CVSS 7.5)
- Vecteur CVSS
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Exploitation active
- Non signalée par la CISA
- Publication
- 29 juil. 2026
- Dernière mise à jour
- 4 août 2026
Produits concernés
- davegamble cjson