GHSA-wgvc-ghv9-3pmm
UltraJSON has a Memory Leak parsing large integers allows DoS
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
#### Summary
ujson 5.4.0 to 5.11.0 inclusive contain an accumulating memory leak in JSON parsing _large_ (outside of the range [-2^63, 2^64 - 1]) integers.
#### Exploitability
Any service that calls `ujson.load()`/`ujson.loads()`/`ujson.decode()` on untrusted inputs is affected and vulnerable to denial of service attacks.
#### Details
The leaked memory is a copy of the string form of the integer plus an additional NULL byte. The leak occurs irrespective of whether the integer parses successfully or is rejected due to having more than `sys.get_int_max_str_digits()` digits, meaning that any sized leak per malicious JSON can be achieved provided that there is no limit on the overall size of the payload.
```python
ujson.loads(str(2 ** 64 - 1)) # No leak
ujson.loads(str(2 ** 64)) # Leaks
ujson.loads(str(10 ** sys.get_int_max_str_digits())) # Leaks and raises ValueError
```
#### Fix
The leak is fixed in `ujson 5.12.0` (4baeb950df780092bd3c89fc702a868e99a3a1d2). There are no workarounds beyond upgrading to an unaffected version.
#### Credits
Discovered by Cameron Criswell/Skevros using Coverage-guided fuzzing (libFuzzer + AddressSanitizer)
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/ultrajson/ultrajson/security/advisories/GHSA-wgvc-ghv9-3pmm
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-32874
- https://github.com/ultrajson/ultrajson/commit/4baeb950df780092bd3c89fc702a868e99a3a1d2
- https://github.com/ultrajson/ultrajson
- https://github.com/ultrajson/ultrajson/releases/tag/5.12.0