CVE-2026-54896 PUBLISHED

Oj: Heap Buffer Overflow in Oj.dump Exception Serialization via Large Indent

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 16.06.2026 Published: 30.06.2026 Updated: 01.07.2026

Oj (Optimized JSON) is a JSON parser and Object marshaller packaged as a Ruby gem. In versions prior to 3.17.2, when in object mode, Oj.dump is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow when serializing Exception objects with a large :indent value. The serializer allocates a buffer sized for the object's attributes but does not account for the indent bytes added on each write. With indent: 5000, the accumulation of 5,000-byte indent strings overflows the 13,150-byte heap allocation, corrupting adjacent heap memory. This issue has been fixed in version 3.17.2.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 2.1

Product Status

Vendor ohler55
Product oj
Versions
  • Version < 3.17.2 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-122: Heap-based Buffer Overflow CWE