What is CVE-2018-1000217?

CVE-2018-1000217 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Davegamble Cjson, classified under Use After Free. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2018-08-20.

How severe is CVE-2018-1000217?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Use After Free in Davegamble Cjson

CVE-2018-1000217

Dave Gamble cJSON version 1.7.3 and earlier contains a CWE-416: Use After Free vulnerability in cJSON library that can result in Possible crash, corruption of data or even RCE. This attack appear to be exploitable via Depends on how application uses cJSON library. If application provides network interface then can be exploited over a network, otherwise just local.. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.7.4.

Vulnerability class: Use-After-Free

EPSS: 0.018 (75.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Davegamble Cjson
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-416 — Use After Free

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-1000217?: CVE-2018-1000217 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Davegamble Cjson, classified under Use After Free. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2018-08-20.
How severe is CVE-2018-1000217?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.