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CVE-2023-50471

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CVE-2023-50471 is a segmentation violation vulnerability in cJSON v1.7.16, specifically within the cJSON_InsertItemInArray function. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, potentially leading to a denial of service. There is currently no public exploit code available, nor is there evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.7.16CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:davegamble:cjson:1.7.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.51%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
71.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0151 is in the 53rd percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (8)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 apparmor 3.0.4-3 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 3.0.4-3
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: azl3 ceph 18.2.2-8 on Azure Linux 3.0Fixed in: 18.2.2-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: azl3 apparmor 3.1.7-1 on Azure Linux 3.0Fixed in: 3.1.7-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 20442-17084Fixed in: 3.1.7-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18223-16823Fixed in: 3.0.4-3
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 19666-17084Fixed in: 18.2.2-1
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 6.15 for RHEL 8Fixed in: cjson-0:1.7.18-1.el8sat
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

redhatCVE-2023-50471Low

cjson: segmentation violation in function cJSON_InsertItemInArray

Dec 14, 2023
microsoft2023-Dec/CVE-2023-50471Important

cJSON v1.7.16 was discovered to contain a segmentation violation via the function cJSON_InsertItemInArray at cJSON.c.

Dec 12, 2023

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/[email protected]/message/EO4XCUTY3ZMVW4YBG6DBYVS5NSMNP6JY
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/[email protected]/message/JSI3LL6ZNKYNM5JKPA5FKZTATL4MPF7V
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/[email protected]/message/YQOQ7CAOYBNHGAMNOR7ELGLC22HV3ZQV
github.com / DaveGamble/cJSON/issues/802
ExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00023.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EO4XCUTY3ZMVW4YBG6DBYVS5NSMNP6JY
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JSI3LL6ZNKYNM5JKPA5FKZTATL4MPF7V
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YQOQ7CAOYBNHGAMNOR7ELGLC22HV3ZQV