Use After Free Affecting oj package, versions <3.17.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.12% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-OJ-17393862
  • published22 Jun 2026
  • disclosed19 Jun 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Jun 2026

NewCVE-2026-54898  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade oj to version 3.17.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free in the parse function. An attacker can cause memory corruption by mutating the input JSON string during parsing callbacks, which leads to the parser accessing freed memory.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1