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
0.43% (35th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-OJ-17393950
  • published22 Jun 2026
  • disclosed19 Jun 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Jun 2026

NewCVE-2026-54899  (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 opt_symbol_keys_set. An attacker can cause the application to read from freed memory by toggling the symbol_keys option from true to false on a reused parser instance and then invoking the parse method.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1