CVE-2023-50471 (GCVE-0-2023-50471)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-12-14 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-04 22:05
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
cJSON v1.7.16 was discovered to contain a segmentation violation via the function cJSON_InsertItemInArray at cJSON.c.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
8 references
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