CVE-2025-57052

Name
CVE-2025-57052
Description
cJSON 1.5.0 through 1.7.18 allows out-of-bounds access via the decode_array_index_from_pointer function in cJSON_Utils.c, allowing remote attackers to bypass array bounds checking and access restricted data via malformed JSON pointer strings containing alphanumeric characters.
NVD Severity
unknown
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
cve@mitre.org https://x-0r.com/posts/cJSON-Array-Index-Parsing-Vulnerability
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/09/msg00019.html

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
n/a == n/a == n/a
cpe:2.3:a:davegamble:cjson:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cjson >= 1.5.0 <= 1.7.18

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
cjson edge-main 1.7.18-r1 Jakub Jirutka <jakub@jirutka.cz> possibly vulnerable
cjson edge-main 1.7.18-r0 Jakub Jirutka <jakub@jirutka.cz> possibly vulnerable
cjson 3.22-main 1.7.19-r0 Jakub Jirutka <jakub@jirutka.cz> fixed
cjson 3.22-main 1.7.18-r1 Jakub Jirutka <jakub@jirutka.cz> possibly vulnerable
cjson 3.21-main 1.7.19-r0 Jakub Jirutka <jakub@jirutka.cz> fixed
cjson 3.21-main 1.7.18-r0 Jakub Jirutka <jakub@jirutka.cz> possibly vulnerable
cjson 3.20-main 1.7.19-r0 Jakub Jirutka <jakub@jirutka.cz> fixed
cjson 3.20-main 1.7.18-r0 Jakub Jirutka <jakub@jirutka.cz> possibly vulnerable
cjson 3.19-main 1.7.19-r0 Jakub Jirutka <jakub@jirutka.cz> fixed
cjson 3.19-main 1.7.17-r0 Jakub Jirutka <jakub@jirutka.cz> possibly vulnerable