Intel

AIKIDO-2026-10933

jsonschema is vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS)

Denial of Service (DoS) Pre-CVE
Found by Aikido Intel before public disclosure or CVE publication.
Published 2 days ago

59

Medium Risk

This Affects:

RUSTjsonschema
0.0.1 - 0.46.3
Fixed in 0.46.4
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TL;DR

The jsonschema crate evaluates pattern and patternProperties via underlying regex and fancy-regex engines during instance validation. Certain schemas with very large bounded quantifiers (for example ^.{0,404600}$) can trigger an internal regex-engine panic when matching specific instances, aborting the host process instead of returning a validation error. Services that validate untrusted JSON Schemas or instances against attacker-influenced patterns are at risk of denial of service. Versions before 0.46.4 call catch_unwind around regex matching and map panics to RegexEngineFailure so validation fails safely.

Who does this affect?

You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range.

Background info

jsonschema is vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) in versions 0.0.1 - 0.46.3.

How to fix this

Upgrade the jsonschema library to the patch version.