CVE-2018-1000216

8.8 highEPSS 1.5%

High (8.8) in davegamble cjson. EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Dave Gamble cJSON version 1.7.2 and earlier contains a CWE-415: Double Free vulnerability in cJSON library that can result in Possible crash or RCE. This attack appear to be exploitable via Attacker must be able to force victim to print JSON data, depending on how cJSON library is used this could be either local or over a network. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.7.3.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

8.8 high

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 73% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-415
Published: 2018-08-20
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

davegamble:cjson

References

https://github.com/DaveGamble/cJSON/issues/241
https://github.com/DaveGamble/cJSON/issues/241

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