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CVE-2024-47855

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-47855 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting JSON-lib versions prior to 3.1.0, specifically in the util/JSONTokener.java component, where it improperly handles unbalanced comment strings. This flaw allows for a denial-of-service (DoS) attack with low attack complexity and no user interaction required, as indicated by its CVSS score of 5.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L). Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, no publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
N/AN/A
n/aCNA affected

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
17.57%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1757 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (16)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.kordamp.json:json-lib-coreFixed in: 3.1.0
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OCP-Tools-4.12-RHEL-8Fixed in: jenkins-0:2.479.3.1740464431-3.el8
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OCP-Tools-4.12-RHEL-8Fixed in: jenkins-2-plugins-0:4.12.1740464689-1.el8
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OCP-Tools-4.13-RHEL-8Fixed in: jenkins-0:2.479.3.1740464433-3.el8
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OCP-Tools-4.13-RHEL-8Fixed in: jenkins-2-plugins-0:4.13.1740464698-1.el8
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OCP-Tools-4.14-RHEL-8Fixed in: jenkins-0:2.479.3.1740109575-3.el8
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OCP-Tools-4.14-RHEL-8Fixed in: jenkins-2-plugins-0:4.14.1740109868-1.el8
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OCP-Tools-4.15-RHEL-8Fixed in: jenkins-0:2.479.3.1740051993-3.el8
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OCP-Tools-4.16-RHEL-9Fixed in: jenkins-0:2.479.3.1739896390-3.el9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OCP-Tools-4.16-RHEL-9Fixed in: jenkins-2-plugins-0:4.16.1739896683-1.el9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OCP-Tools-4.17-RHEL-9Fixed in: jenkins-0:2.479.3.1739859586-3.el9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OCP-Tools-4.17-RHEL-9Fixed in: jenkins-2-plugins-0:4.17.1739859908-1.el9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OCP-Tools-4.15-RHEL-8Fixed in: jenkins-2-plugins-0:4.15.1740052174-1.el8
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redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShiftFixed in: org.elasticsearch.plugin.prometheus-prometheus-exporter
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Single Sign-On 7Fixed in: net.sf.json-lib/json-lib
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Data Grid 8Fixed in: net.sf.json-lib/json-lib

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-wwcp-26wc-3fxmmedium

JSON-lib mishandles an unbalanced comment string

Oct 4, 2024
redhatCVE-2024-47855Moderate

json-lib: Mishandling of an unbalanced comment string in json-lib

Oct 4, 2024

References

github.com / kordamp/json-lib/commit/a0c4a0eae277130e22979cf307c95dec4005a78e
github.com / kordamp/json-lib/compare/v3.0.3...v3.1.0