CVE-2023-5072

HIGH7.5EPSS 0.68%

Java: DoS Vulnerability in JSON-JAVA

Published: 11/14/2023Modified: 4/28/2026

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.

Affected packages (4)

Debian/jenkins-jsonfrom 0
Debian/libjettison-javafrom 0
Debian/libjson-javafrom 0
Maven/org.json:jsonfrom 0, < 20231013

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (8)

ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5072
ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-5072
PATCHhttps://github.com/stleary/JSON-java
WEBhttps://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-4jq9-2xhw-jpx7
WEBhttps://github.com/stleary/JSON-java/commit/60662e2f8384d3449822a3a1179bfe8de67b55bb
WEBhttps://github.com/stleary/JSON-java/issues/758
WEBhttps://github.com/stleary/JSON-java/issues/771
WEBhttps://github.com/stleary/JSON-java/pull/759