CVE-2024-31755

Publication date 26 April 2024

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

cJSON v1.7.17 was discovered to contain a segmentation violation, which can trigger through the second parameter of function cJSON_SetValuestring at cJSON.c.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
cjson	26.04 LTS resolute	Not affected
	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 1.7.17-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
	23.10 mantic	Fixed 1.7.16-1ubuntu0.2
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 1.7.15-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.6 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-6784-1
cJSON vulnerabilities
23 May 2024