CVE-2024-38517

Publication date 9 July 2024

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Tencent RapidJSON is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to an integer underflow in the `GenericReader::ParseNumber()` function of `include/rapidjson/reader.h` when parsing JSON text from a stream. An attacker needs to send the victim a crafted file which needs to be opened; this triggers the integer underflow vulnerability (when the file is parsed), leading to elevation of privilege.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
rapidjson	25.10 questing	Needs evaluation
	25.04 plucky	Needs evaluation
	24.10 oracular	Fixed 1.1.0+dfsg2-7.3ubuntu0.1
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 1.1.0+dfsg2-7.2ubuntu0.1~esm1
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 1.1.0+dfsg2-7ubuntu0.1~esm1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1.1.0+dfsg2-5ubuntu1+esm1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1.1.0+dfsg2-3ubuntu0.1~esm1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 0.12~git20141031-3ubuntu0.1~esm1

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-7125-1
RapidJSON vulnerability
25 November 2024