CVE-2020-12762 (GCVE-0-2020-12762)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-05-09 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-03 19:25
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
json-c through 0.14 has an integer overflow and out-of-bounds write via a large JSON file, as demonstrated by printbuf_memappend.
Severity
7.8 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-05-30 19:18 UTC
CWE
- n/a
- CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write
Assigner
References
16 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/json-c/json-c/pull/592 | |
| https://github.com/rsyslog/libfastjson/issues/161 | |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… | vendor-advisory |
| https://usn.ubuntu.com/4360-1/ | vendor-advisory |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… | vendor-advisory |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… | vendor-advisory |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020… | mailing-list |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020… | mailing-list |
| https://usn.ubuntu.com/4360-4/ | vendor-advisory |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-13 | vendor-advisory |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020… | mailing-list |
| https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4741 | vendor-advisory |
| https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2021052… | |
| https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/s… | |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023… | mailing-list |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025… |
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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