7.5

CVE-2018-1000215: davegamble cjson

CVSS: 7.5v3.0HighModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2018-1000215DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1000215
Published 20-08-2018Last modified 16-09-2024
Open JSON

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2018-1000215 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in davegamble cjson. EPSS estimates a 1.69% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 76.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
30/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.69%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 20-08-2018
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 16-09-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Dave Gamble cJSON version 1.7.6 and earlier contains a CWE-772 vulnerability in cJSON library that can result in Denial of Service (DoS). This attack appear to be exploitable via If the attacker can force the data to be printed and the system is in low memory it can force a leak of memory. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.7.7.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.69%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

77%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.69% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
1.69%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Davegamble1 product
Debian1 product
  • cjson< 1.7.7-1
Ubuntu1 product
  • cjson< 1.7.10-1.1 | < 1.7.15-1

3 vendors · 3 products

References

6 links