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OESA-2023-1203 (CVE-2023-1370)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2023-04-11 11:05 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:05 – Source website

Summary

json-smart security update

Details

Json-smart is a performance focused, JSON processor lib.

Security Fix(es):

Json-smart is a performance focused, JSON processor lib. When reaching a ‘[‘ or ‘{‘ character in the JSON input, the code parses an array or an object respectively. It was discovered that the code does not have any limit to the nesting of such arrays or objects. Since the parsing of nested arrays and objects is done recursively, nesting too many of them can cause a stack exhaustion (stack overflow) and crash the software.(CVE-2023-1370)

Severity

7.5 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bull…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1370	ADVISORY

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  "id": "OESA-2023-1203",
  "modified": "2026-08-06T11:05:40Z",
  "published": "2023-04-11T11:05:40Z",
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      "url": "https://www.openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bulletin/detail.html?id=openEuler-SA-2023-1203"
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}

CVE-2023-1370 (GCVE-0-2023-1370)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-03-13 09:04 – Updated: 2025-02-27 19:09

Title

Stack exhaustion in json-smart leads to denial of service when parsing malformed JSON

Summary

[Json-smart](https://netplex.github.io/json-smart/) is a performance focused, JSON processor lib. When reaching a ‘[‘ or ‘{‘ character in the JSON input, the code parses an array or an object respectively. It was discovered that the code does not have any limit to the nesting of such arrays or objects. Since the parsing of nested arrays and objects is done recursively, nesting too many of them can cause a stack exhaustion (stack overflow) and crash the software.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-02-27 19:09 UTC

CWE

CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion

Assigner

JFROG CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 75/100 over 61 records in the last 180 days details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/stack-…
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2024062…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
json-smart	json-smart	Affected: 0 , < 2.4.9 (maven)

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