CVE-2013-6371
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 3.1%EU EUVD
The hash functionality in json-c before 0.12 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted JSON data, involving collisions.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-310
- EPSS score
- 3.1% (88th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2013-6196)
- Published
- April 22, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2013-6196 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- fedoraproject / fedora
- json-c / json-c
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-April/131845.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57791(Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:079(Broken Link)
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66715(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1032311(Issue Tracking)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/92541(VDB Entry)
- https://github.com/json-c/json-c/commit/64e36901a0614bf64a19bc3396469c66dcd0b015(Issue Tracking, Patch)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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