High
Security advisory
GJSON <1.6.5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (remote) via crafted JSON.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-36066
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:26 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
GJSON <1.6.5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (remote) via crafted JSON.
osv:CVE-2020-36066
Complete source record
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