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CVE-2024-38517

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2024-07-09 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-191

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