Improper Handling of Syntactically Invalid Structure Affecting python-ujson package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-PYTHONUJSON-5254875
  • published26 Mar 2023
  • disclosed2 Jul 2022

Introduced: 2 Jul 2022

CVE-2022-31116  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-228  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 python-ujson.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python-ujson package and not the python-ujson package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 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