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CVE-2016-4425
Jansson 2.7 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (deep recursion, stack consumption, and crash) via…
Medium6.5EPSS 1.9%
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- mitre
Description
Jansson 2.7 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (deep recursion, stack consumption, and crash) via crafted JSON data.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.9% · top 20% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (7)
- [oss-security] 20160503 Re: CVE Request: Jansson: stack exhaustion parsing a JSON file (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160501 CVE Request: Jansson: stack exhaustion parsing a JSON file (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160502 Re: CVE Request: Jansson: stack exhaustion parsing a JSON file (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://github.com/akheron/jansson/issues/282 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/akheron/jansson/pull/284 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/akheron/jansson/pull/284/commits/64ce0ad3731ebd77e02897b07920eadd0e2cc318 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-3577 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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