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CVE-2024-27454

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-27454 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting orjson versions prior to 3.9.15, where the orjson.loads function fails to limit recursion for deeply nested JSON documents. This allows an unauthenticated attacker to remotely trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition with low attack complexity. While rated 7.5 HIGH on CVSS, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 3.9.15CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ijl:orjson:*:*:*:*:*:python:*:*

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
1.19%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
64.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0119 is in the 43rd percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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 (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: orjsonFixed in: 3.9.15

Vendor Advisories (1)

pipGHSA-pwr2-4v36-6qprhigh

orjson does not limit recursion for deeply nested JSON documents

Feb 26, 2024

References

github.com / ijl/orjson/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
Release Notes
github.com / ijl/orjson/commit/b0e4d2c06ce06c6e63981bf0276e4b7c74e5845e
Patch
github.com / ijl/orjson/issues/458
ExploitIssue Tracking
monicz.dev / CVE-2024-27454
Broken Link