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Vulnerability · Published Jun 6, 2023 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2023-33460

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity memory leak in the yajl package (AlmaLinux). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.1% (higher than 67% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)1.1%top 33.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:8yajl2.1.0-12.el8ALSA-2023:7057
AlmaLinux:9yajl2.1.0-22.el9ALSA-2023:6551
AlmaLinux:8yajl-devel2.1.0-12.el8ALSA-2023:7057
AlmaLinux:9yajl-devel2.1.0-22.el9ALSA-2023:6551
Alpine:v3.20yajl2.1.0-r9ALPINE-CVE-2023-33460
Alpine:v3.21yajl2.1.0-r9ALPINE-CVE-2023-33460
Alpine:v3.22yajl2.1.0-r9ALPINE-CVE-2023-33460
Alpine:v3.23yajl2.1.0-r9ALPINE-CVE-2023-33460
Alpine:v3.24yajl2.1.0-r9ALPINE-CVE-2023-33460
Debian:12r-cran-jsonliteno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2023-33460
Debian:13r-cran-jsonlite1.8.8+dfsg-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-33460
Debian:14r-cran-jsonlite1.8.8+dfsg-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-33460
Debian:12yajl2.1.0-3+deb12u2DEBIAN-CVE-2023-33460
Debian:13yajl2.1.0-5DEBIAN-CVE-2023-33460
Debian:14yajl2.1.0-5DEBIAN-CVE-2023-33460
Rocky Linux:8yajl0:2.1.0-12.el8RLSA-2023:7057
Rocky Linux:9yajl0:2.1.0-22.el9RLSA-2023:6551
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSargyllno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-33460
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSargyllno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-33460
Ubuntu:25.10argyllno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-33460
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSargyllno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-33460
Ubuntu:26.10argyllno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-33460
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSr-cran-jsonliteno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-33460
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSr-cran-jsonliteno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-33460
Ubuntu:25.10r-cran-jsonliteno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-33460
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSr-cran-jsonliteno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-33460
Ubuntu:26.10r-cran-jsonliteno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-33460
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSyajl2.1.0-3ubuntu0.22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2023-33460
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSyajl2.1.0-3ubuntu0.22.04.1USN-6233-2

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
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Weakness: CWE-401 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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