CVE-2026-44660 PUBLISHED

UltraJSON: Memory Leak in ujson.dump() on Write Failure

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 07.05.2026 Published: 27.05.2026 Updated: 27.05.2026

UltraJSON is a fast JSON encoder and decoder written in pure C with bindings for Python 3.7+. Prior to 5.12.1, when ujson.dump() writes to a file-like object and the write operation raises an exception, the serialized JSON string object is not decremented, leaking memory. Each failed write operation leaks the full size of the serialized payload. This vulnerability is fixed in 5.12.1.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.7

Product Status

Vendor ultrajson
Product ultrajson
Versions
  • Version < 5.12.1 is affected

References

Problem Types

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