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CVE-2023-5072DoS Vulnerability in JSON-Java
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 1.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 22% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Denial of Service in JSON-Java versions up to and including 20230618. A bug in the parser means that an input string of modest size can lead to indefinite amounts of memory being used.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Google
- 23 days later
· 23 days later
Published
- 16 months later
· 16 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GoogleCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.7% · top 22% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
https://github.com/stleary/JSON-java · n/a
- affected ≤ 20230618
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.json:jsonGHSA-4jq9-2xhw-jpx7 (opens in a new tab)
References
References4
- https://github.com/stleary/JSON-java/issues/758 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/stleary/JSON-java/issues/771 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/13/4 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240621-0007/ (opens in a new tab)x_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-2880 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-4jq9-2xhw-jpx7 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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