CVE-2026-54911

UltraJSON: Malformed/Truncated UTF-8 Accepted and Silently Rewritten in ujson.dumps()

Published Jun 22, 2026 CVSS 3.1 · 6.5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
UltraJSON is a fast JSON encoder and decoder written in pure C with bindings for Python 3.7+. Prior to 5.13.0, ujson.dumps() (or ujson.dump() or ujson.encode()) have a reject_bytes=False option. When set, they may accept malformed or truncated UTF-8 byte sequences, silently rewriting them into different Unicode characters instead of rejecting them. This leads to input validation bypass and data integrity issues. This vulnerability is fixed in 5.13.0.

Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-3j69-69wj-xqx2 UltraJSON: Malformed/Truncated UTF-8 Accepted and Silently Rewritten in ujson.dumps()
History
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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

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First Time appeared Ultrajson
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Vendors & Products Ultrajson
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Description UltraJSON is a fast JSON encoder and decoder written in pure C with bindings for Python 3.7+. Prior to 5.13.0, ujson.dumps() (or ujson.dump() or ujson.encode()) have a reject_bytes=False option. When set, they may accept malformed or truncated UTF-8 byte sequences, silently rewriting them into different Unicode characters instead of rejecting them. This leads to input validation bypass and data integrity issues. This vulnerability is fixed in 5.13.0.
Title UltraJSON: Malformed/Truncated UTF-8 Accepted and Silently Rewritten in ujson.dumps()
Weaknesses CWE-20
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Jun 23, 2026, 2:20 PM
Reserved
Jun 16, 2026, 1:49 PM
Status
Analyzed
Published
Jun 22, 2026, 10:16 PM
Modified
Jun 26, 2026, 8:10 PM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Jun 22, 2026, 8:53 PM