CVE-2026-95117

—Unscored

Published 13 Oct 2026 · NVD status: Deferred · AI triage by gemini-3.8-flash

—Unscored

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Impact

Remote attackers can crash services parsing JSON, causing a denial of service. They just need to submit crafted JSON payloads to applications exposing jsmn parsing routines.

Root cause

A buffer overflow occurs during JSON parsing in jsmn_parse() and sample dump() implementations when handling malformed input.

Affected systems

zserge jsmn commit 25647e6 and earlier

Fix & remediation

Merge or cherry-pick the fix from pull request #250 into your jsmn source tree; no released version number is specified.

shell

$ git pull origin pull/250/head

AI-suggested. Run it in staging first and check it against the vendor advisory. Why?

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NVD description

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in zserge jsmn jsmn HEAD 25647e6 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the jsmn.h, jsmn_parse(), example/jsondump.c, dump() components

References

Source: nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-95117