Out-of-bounds Read Affecting amazon-ion/ion-c package, versions [,1.1.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-AMAZONIONIONC-13865268
  • published10 Nov 2025
  • disclosed7 Nov 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Nov 2025

NewCVE-2025-12829  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade amazon-ion/ion-c to version 1.1.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read via the debug_malloc function in the ionc/ion_allocation.c. An attacker can access sensitive data in memory by crafting malicious data that, when serialized to Ion text, exposes information through UTF-8 escape sequences.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1