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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-32875 EUVD-2026-13444GHSA-c8rr-9gxc-jprvPYSEC-2026-2292

UltraJSON has an integer overflow handling large indent leads to buffer overflow or infinite loop

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 5.10 through 5.11.0 are vulnerable to buffer overflow or infinite loop through large indent handling. ujson.dumps() crashes the Python interpreter (segmentation fault) when the product of the indent parameter and the nested depth of the input exceeds INT32_MAX. It can also get stuck in an infinite loop if the indent is a large negative number. Both are caused by an integer overflow/underflow whilst calculating how much memory to reserve for indentation. And both can be used to achieve denial of service. To be vulnerable, a service must call ujson.dump()/ujson.dumps()/ujson.encode() whilst giving untrusted users control over the indent parameter and not restrict that indentation to reasonably small non-negative values. A service may also be vulnerable to the infinite loop if it uses a fixed negative indent. An underflow always occurs for any negative indent when the input data is at least one level nested but, for small negative indents, the underflow is usually accidentally rectified by another overflow. This issue has been fixed in version 5.12.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
ultrajson ultrajson >= 5.1.0, < 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 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS ujson 5.9.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 —
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS ujson 5.1.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm2 —
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 >= 5.1.0, < 5.12.0 5.12.0 GHSA-c8rr-9gxc-jprv

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