CVE-2026-54500CWE-125CWE-908

Oj: intern.c form_attr has an uninitialized stack read

Medium · published June 30, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
9.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Oj (Optimized JSON) is a JSON parser and Object marshaller packaged as a Ruby gem. In versions prior to 3.17.3, Oj.load in :object mode reads uninitialized stack memory (and, for long keys, reads out of bounds) when parsing a JSON object whose key is 254 bytes or longer. The interned bytes can surface to the caller, disclosing process stack memory. In ext/oj/intern.c, form_attr() handles the long-key path by allocating a heap buffer, `b`, populating it with the attribute name, and then freeing it — but it passed the uninitialized stack buffer buf (not b) to rb_intern3(). rb_intern3 therefore reads len + 1 bytes of uninitialized stack memory. When the key length is >= 256, it also reads out of bounds past the 256-byte buf. The resulting bytes are interned and can reach the caller via the produced Symbol or via the EncodingError message raised on invalid UTF-8, leaking process stack contents. This issue has been fixed in version 3.17.3.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00198 · 9.0th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read; CWE-908 · Use of Uninitialized Resource
Published
2026-06-30T23:08Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 30 JUN 23:08Z
    Oj: intern.c form_attr has an uninitialized stack read
    cvelistv5