CVE-2016-4425

medium
Published 2016-05-17 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
5.0
VIR risk
6.5

Description

Jansson 2.7 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (deep recursion, stack consumption, and crash) via crafted JSON data.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-4425

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/akheron/jansson/pull/284

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/akheron/jansson/issues/282

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201609-17

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201609-15

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4425.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
arch archfixed2.8-1
debian debianbookwormfixed2.7-5
debian debianbullseyefixed2.7-5
debian debianforkyfixed2.7-5
debian debiansidfixed2.7-5
debian debiantrixiefixed2.7-5

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
jansson_projectjansson{"endIncluding":"2.7"}

References

CWEs

CWE-20 CWE-674

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.