CVE-2024-38517

Publication date 9 July 2024

Last updated 30 May 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8 · High

Score breakdown

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

Package Ubuntu Release Status
rapidjson 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