DEBIAN-CVE-2025-57052

Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-57052
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-57052.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-57052
Upstream
Downstream
Published
2025-09-03T15:15:38Z
Modified
2026-09-01T16:05:54Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:12 / cjson

Package

Name
cjson
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/cjson?arch=source&distro=bookworm

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.7.15-1+deb12u4

Affected versions

1.*
1.7.15-1
1.7.15-1+deb12u1
1.7.15-1+deb12u2
1.7.15-1+deb12u3

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency":  "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-57052.json"

Debian:13 / cjson

Package

Name
cjson
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/cjson?arch=source&distro=trixie

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.7.18-3.1+deb13u1

Affected versions

1.*
1.7.18-3.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency":  "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-57052.json"

Debian:14 / cjson

Package

Name
cjson
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/cjson?arch=source&distro=forky

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.7.19-1

Affected versions

1.*
1.7.18-3.1
1.7.18-4

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency":  "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-57052.json"