CVE-2014-4616

mediumpriority · track · 27EPSS 0.078 · 95 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

7.85% (95th) EPSS

CVSS 4.3 · medium

Is it mine?

9 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Array index error in the scanstring function in the _json module in Python 2.7 through 3.5 and simplejson before 2.6.1 allows context-dependent attackers to read arbitrary process memory via a negative index value in the idx argument to the raw_decode function.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.9

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 2.9

v3.15.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.2 · impact 3.6

v3.05.9mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nsecondary · OSV

v3.15.4mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-129USprimaryCWE-129US

affected products (9)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
opensuse opensuse= 13.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
opensuse project opensuse= 12.3nvdUScpe:2.3:o:opensuse_project:opensuse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
python python2.7.0 → 2.7.7nvdUScpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
python python3.0.0 → 3.2.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
python python3.3.0 → 3.3.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
python python3.4.0 → 3.4.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
simplejson project simplejson< 2.6.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:simplejson_project:simplejson:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
PyPI simplejson< 2.6.1osvUSpkg:pypi/simplejson

advisories (3)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-9772-cwx9-r4cjsimplejson before 2.6.1 vulnerable to array index error2022-05-14ghsa · osvUS
Array index error in the scanstring function in the _json module in Python 2.7 through 3.5 and simplejson before 2.6.1 allows context-dependent attackers to read arbitrary process memory via a negative index value in the idx argument to the raw_decode function.
PSF-2017-1JSONDecoder.raw_decode2017-08-24vendor · osvUS
Array index error in the scanstring function in the _json module in Python 2.7 through 3.5 and simplejson before 2.6.1 allows context-dependent attackers to read arbitrary process memory via a negative index value in the idx argument to the raw_decode function.
PYSEC-2026-921simplejson before 2.6.1 vulnerable to array index error2026-07-06vendor · osvUS
Array index error in the scanstring function in the _json module in Python 2.7 through 3.5 and simplejson before 2.6.1 allows context-dependent attackers to read arbitrary process memory via a negative index value in the idx argument to the raw_decode function.

also known as (7)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2017-08-24modified 2026-06-17

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references (27)

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