Improper Validation of Array Index Affecting simplejson package, versions [,2.6.1)
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.31% (70th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-SIMPLEJSON-2961632
- published 14 Dec 2021
- disclosed 24 Aug 2017
- credit westonsteimel
Introduced: 24 Aug 2017
CVE-2014-4616 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade simplejson to version 2.6.1 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Validation of Array Index in the scanstring function which allows context-dependent attackers to read arbitrary process memory via a negative index value in the idx argument to the raw_decode function.
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