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CVE-2023-50471

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Dec 14, 2023 | Modified: Nov 04, 2025
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
4 LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-50471
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

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

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Cjson Davegamble 1.7.16 (including) 1.7.16 (including)
Red Hat Satellite 6.15 for RHEL 8 RedHat cjson-0:1.7.18-1.el8sat *
Red Hat Satellite 6.15 for RHEL 8 RedHat cjson-0:1.7.18-1.el8sat *
Cjson Ubuntu bionic *
Cjson Ubuntu esm-apps/jammy *
Cjson Ubuntu jammy *
Cjson Ubuntu lunar *
Cjson Ubuntu mantic *
Cjson Ubuntu trusty *
Cjson Ubuntu upstream *
Cjson Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References

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