CVE-2014-4616
MEDIUM5.9EPSS 0.43%simplejson before 2.6.1 vulnerable to array index error
Published: 5/14/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
Array index error in the scanstring function in the _json module in Python 2.7 through 3.5 and simplejson before 2.6.1 allows context-dependent attackers to read arbitrary process memory via a negative index value in the idx argument to the raw_decode function.
Affected packages (4)
- Alpine/pythonfrom 0, < 2.7.7-r0
- Alpine/python2from 0, < 2.7.7-r0
- Debian/python2.7from 0, < 2.7.7-1
- PyPI/simplejsonfrom 0, < 2.6.1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.9 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
References (13)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-4616
- ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2014-4616
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-4616
- PATCHhttps://github.com/simplejson/simplejson
- WEBhttp://bugs.python.org/issue21529
- WEBhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-07/msg00015.html
- WEBhttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/24/7
- WEBhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1064.html
- WEBhttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=752395
- WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1112285
- WEBhttps://hackerone.com/reports/12297
- WEBhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-10
- WEBhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68119