Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions in cJSON - CVE-2019-1010239

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Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions in cJSON - CVE-2019-1010239

Published: July 19, 2019 / Updated: October 27, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU35696
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-1010239
CWE-ID: CWE-754
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

DaveGamble/cJSON cJSON 1.7.8 is affected by: Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions. The impact is: Null dereference, so attack can cause denial of service. The component is: cJSON_GetObjectItemCaseSensitive() function. The attack vector is: crafted json file. The fixed version is: 1.7.9 and later.


Affected software

cJSON
Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database

How to mitigate CVE-2019-1010239

Install update from vendor's website.

Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database - update to 18.1.3.1.0

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