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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-32874 EUVD-2026-13443GHSA-wgvc-ghv9-3pmmPYSEC-2026-2291

UltraJSON has a Memory Leak parsing large integers allows DoS

Published Mar 20, 2026 · Updated Jul 15, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
ultrajson ultrajson >= 5.4.0, < 5.12.0 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 ujson 5.13.0-1 —
Debian 13 ujson No fix yet —
Debian 12 ujson No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 ujson No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ujson 5.11.0-3ubuntu0.1 —
Ubuntu 25.10 ujson 5.10.0-1ubuntu0.1 —
Show 1 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS ujson 5.9.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 py3-ujson 5.12.0-r0 —
Alpine v3.23 py3-ujson 5.12.0-r0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI ujson >= 5.4.0, < 5.12.0 5.12.0 GHSA-wgvc-ghv9-3pmm

References