Low
Security advisory
mystrtod in mjson 1.2.7 requires more than a billion iterations during processing of certain digit strings such as 8891110122900e913013935755114.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-30421
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 3 Nov 2026, 17:51 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
mystrtod in mjson 1.2.7 requires more than a billion iterations during processing of certain digit strings such as 8891110122900e913013935755114.
osv:CVE-2023-30421
Complete source record
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"id": "09aaf6a7d9a8c4bb824bbecb7e8ecd2443e9c42256f7eae6e94e46faf899fa1f",
"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-30421",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "CVE-2023-30421",
"summary": "mystrtod in mjson 1.2.7 requires more than a billion iterations during processing of certain digit strings such as 8891110122900e913013935755114.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2023-30421",
"products": [],
"severity": "low",
"structured": {
"id": "CVE-2023-30421",
"aliases": [
"CVE-2023-30421"
],
"metrics": [
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"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L"
}
],
"affected": [
{
"ranges": [
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"repo": "https://github.com/cesanta/mjson",
"type": "GIT",
"events": [
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"introduced": "0"
},
{
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}
],
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"range": [
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},
{
"last_affected": "1.2.7"
}
],
"source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
"strategy": "ZeroIntroducedSingleVersion"
}
]
}
}
],
"versions": [
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"1.2.6",
"1.2.5",
"1.2.4",
"1.2.3",
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"1.2.1",
"1.2.0",
"v1.1.1",
"v1.1.0",
"1.0"
],
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-30421.json"
}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:31.004644145Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://github.com/boofish/json_bugs/blob/main/mjson",
"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/30xxx/CVE-2023-30421.json",
"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-30421",
"https://github.com/cesanta/mjson/releases"
],
"provider_metadata": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-407"
],
"cna_assigner": "mitre",
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/30xxx/CVE-2023-30421.json"
}
},
"related_cves": [
{
"value": "CVE-2023-30421",
"evidence": "/id"
}
],
"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 498025,
"published_at": "2025-04-19T00:00:00+00:00"
}