HIGH 8.7 NVD
CVE-2026-67215
cJSON through 1.7.19 is vulnerable to uncontrolled recursion leading to stack exhaustion when an untrusted RFC 6902 JSON Patch is applied via cJSONUtils_ApplyPa
cJSON through 1.7.19 is vulnerable to uncontrolled recursion leading to stack exhaustion when an untrusted RFC 6902 JSON Patch is applied via cJSONUtils_ApplyPatches() or cJSONUtils_ApplyPatchesCaseSensitive(). A patch containing add and copy operations grafts duplicated subtrees to amplify document depth beyond the parser's nesting limit: cJSON_Delete() recurses with no depth bound, and the cJSON_Duplicate() guard CJSON_CIRCULAR_LIMIT is set to 10000, ten times the parser's 1000-level nesting limit and high enough to overflow a default thread stack. An attacker who can supply the patch document can crash the process, resulting in denial of service.
Affected Products
- davegamble/cjson
References
- https://github.com/DaveGamble/cJSON/blob/v1.7.19/cJSON.c#L253-L261
- https://github.com/DaveGamble/cJSON/blob/v1.7.19/cJSON_Utils.c#L906-L940
- https://joshua.hu/cjson-json-parser-cve-vulnerabilities
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cjson-json-patch-copy-add-uncontrolled-recursion-stac
- https://joshua.hu/cjson-json-parser-cve-vulnerabilities
This high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.7 was published on 2026-07-29 via NVD. Affected: davegamble/cjson.
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