Advisory record · GHSA-wwcp-26wc-3fxm

JSON-lib mishandles an unbalanced comment string

CVSS 5.3 MediumEPSS 0.18 · 97th percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 4 Oct 2024, 06:30 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
org.kordamp.json:json-lib-coreMaven<3.1.03.1.0
net.sf.json-lib:json-libMaven<=2.4No fixed version yet
Identifiers
GHSA-wwcp-26wc-3fxm · CVE-2024-47855
Published
4 Oct 2024
Updated
7 Aug 2026

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

The json-lib-core package before 3.1.0 and the net.sf.json-lib:json-lib package at 2.4 and earlier mishandle an unbalanced comment string in JSON parsing. The source gives few details about how an attacker would trigger this or what impact results. Upgrade json-lib-core to 3.1.0; no fixed version is listed for net.sf.json-lib:json-lib.

Written 2 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
5.3 Medium 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L GitHub Advisory Database
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.18, the 97th percentile, on 14 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 14:19 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 14:19 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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