CVE-2023-33460 (GCVE-0-2023-33460)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-06-06 00:00 – Updated: 2025-01-08 16:24
VLAI
Summary
There's a memory leak in yajl 2.1.0 with use of yajl_tree_parse function. which will cause out-of-memory in server and cause crash.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
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