CVE-2016-4303
CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 7.0%
The parse_string function in cjson.c in the cJSON library mishandles UTF8/16 strings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a non-hex character in a JSON string, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
- CVSS v3.1 NVD
- 9.8 CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS v2.0 NVD
- 7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P - EPSS
- 6.96% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 94th percentile
- Published
- 2016-09-26
- Updated
- 2024-08-06
Proof-of-concept exploits (1)
Security advisories
- http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/06/esnet-vulnerability.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00082.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00090.html
- http://software.es.net/iperf/news.html#security-issue-iperf-3-1-3-iperf-3-0-12-released
- http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0164
- esnet/iperf/commit/91f2fa59e8ed80dfbf400add0164ee0e508e412a
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00023.html
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/esnet/security/master/cve-2016-4303/esnet-secadv-2016-0…