CVE-2025-57052_CVE-2025-57052

9.8 / 10

CRITICAL

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

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.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-57052

Source mitre

Published Sep 3, 2025 at 00:00

Modified Sep 3, 2025 at 17:41

Affected Product

Vendor n/a

Product n/a

Version n/a

Affected Versions n/a n/a n/a

CWE Classification

CWE-129 CWE-125

References

x-0r.com /posts/cJSON-Array-Index-Parsing-Vulnerability

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