Always-Incorrect Control Flow Implementation Affecting py3-ujson package, versions <5.4.0-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE319-PY3UJSON-6110733
  • published8 Dec 2023
  • disclosed5 Jul 2022

Introduced: 5 Jul 2022

CVE-2022-31116  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-670  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.19 py3-ujson to version 5.4.0-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream py3-ujson package and not the py3-ujson package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.19 relevant fixed versions and status.

UltraJSON is a fast JSON encoder and decoder written in pure C with bindings for Python 3.7+. Affected versions were found to improperly decode certain characters. JSON strings that contain escaped surrogate characters not part of a proper surrogate pair were decoded incorrectly. Besides corrupting strings, this allowed for potential key confusion and value overwriting in dictionaries. All users parsing JSON from untrusted sources are vulnerable. From version 5.4.0, UltraJSON decodes lone surrogates in the same way as the standard library's json module does, preserving them in the parsed output. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1