CVE-2026-67215

cJSON through 1.7.19 is vulnerable to uncontrolled recursion leading to stack exhaustion when an untrusted RFC 6902 JSON Patch is applied via cJSONUtils_ApplyPatches() or cJSONUtils_ApplyPatchesCaseSensitive(). A patch containing add and copy operations grafts duplicated subtrees to amplify document depth beyond the parser's nesting limit: cJSON_Delete() recurses with no depth bound, and the cJSON_Duplicate() guard CJSON_CIRCULAR_LIMIT is set to 10000, ten times the parser's 1000-level nesting limit and high enough to overflow a default thread stack. An attacker who can supply the patch document can crash the process, resulting in denial of service.

• CWE-674

• https://github.com/DaveGamble/cJSON/blob/v1.7.19/cJSON.c#L253-L261Patch
• https://github.com/DaveGamble/cJSON/blob/v1.7.19/cJSON_Utils.c#L906-L940Patch
• https://joshua.hu/cjson-json-parser-cve-vulnerabilitiesExploit, Press/Media Coverage, Third Party Advisory
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cjson-json-patch-copy-add-uncontrolled-recursion-stack-exhaustionThird Party Advisory
• https://joshua.hu/cjson-json-parser-cve-vulnerabilitiesExploit, Press/Media Coverage, Third Party Advisory

Published

Jul 29, 2026

Last Modified

Aug 4, 2026

Status

Analyzed

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