CVE-2026-54896: low-severity vulnerability in ohler55 oj
Oj: Heap Buffer Overflow in Oj.dump Exception Serialization via Large Indent
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8Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 2.1epss 0.1%
exploitation probability
0.1%top 96% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
Oj (Optimized JSON) is a JSON parser and Object marshaller packaged as a Ruby gem. In versions prior to 3.17.2, when in object mode, Oj.dump is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow when serializing Exception objects with a large :indent value. The serializer allocates a buffer sized for the object's attributes but does not account for the indent bytes added on each write. With indent: 5000, the accumulation of 5,000-byte indent strings overflows the 13,150-byte heap allocation, corrupting adjacent heap memory. This issue has been fixed in version 3.17.2.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
ohler55 · ojRelated CVEs — ohler55 oj
In the same product, most dangerous first.
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