CVE-2026-32874 PUBLISHED

UltraJSON has a Memory Leak parsing large integers allows DoS

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 16.03.2026 Published: 20.03.2026 Updated: 20.03.2026

UltraJSON is a fast JSON encoder and decoder written in pure C with bindings for Python 3.7+. Versions 5.4.0 through 5.11.0 contain an accumulating memory leak in JSON parsing large (outside of the range [-2^63, 2^64 - 1]) integers. The leaked memory is a copy of the string form of the integer plus an additional NULL byte. The leak occurs irrespective of whether the integer parses successfully or is rejected due to having more than sys.get_int_max_str_digits() digits, meaning that any sized leak per malicious JSON can be achieved provided that there is no limit on the overall size of the payload. Any service that calls ujson.load()/ujson.loads()/ujson.decode() on untrusted inputs is affected and vulnerable to denial of service attacks. This issue has been fixed in version 5.12.0.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 7.5

Product Status

Vendor ultrajson
Product ultrajson
Versions
  • Version >= 5.4.0, < 5.12.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-401: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime CWE