CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-40929
5.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-09-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.6 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-122
Description
Cpanel::JSON::XS before version 4.40 for Perl has an integer buffer overflow causing a segfault when parsing crafted JSON, enabling denial-of-service attacks or other unspecified impact
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow weakness
References
- https://github.com/rurban/Cpanel-JSON-XS/commit/378236219eaa35742c3962ecbdee364903b0a1f2.patch github.com
- https://metacpan.org/release/RURBAN/Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.39/source/XS.xs#L713 metacpan.org
- https://metacpan.org/release/RURBAN/Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.40/changes metacpan.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/09/08/1 www.openwall.com
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/09/msg00034.html lists.debian.org