CVE-2026-88369

HIGHPre-NVD 7.37.3—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 7.3 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-09-24. CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1 baseline 7.3; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: cisa-adp, epss, ghsa
Trending — 3 sources updated this weekElevated
7.3EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan mitigationSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.2%CVSS: 7.3Exploit: Elevated riskExposed services: Not assessed

No fix is confirmed yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for the fix.

zserge jsmn commit 25647e6 is vulnerable to Buffer Overflow in example/jsondump.c dump().

CVSS v3
7.3
EG Score
7.3HIGHhigh confidence
EG Risk
64
EG Risk 64/100CISA SSVC

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity73% × 45%
Exploitation40% × 40%
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Action: No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.
EPSS PROB
0.2%
EPSS %ILE
13th
KEV
Not listed

CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.

Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table

Published

September 24, 2026

Last Modified

September 25, 2026

Advisory Details (1)

Auto-updated Sep 25, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

[Bug]global-buffer-overflow in dump() (example/jsondump.c): non-strict grammar emits a token tree that violates jsmn's own token-size invariant (CWE-125) · Issue #249 · zserge/jsmn · GitHub

https://github.com/zserge/jsmn/issues/249

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-88369(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 24× in last 7d / 39× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-10-04 02:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
  2. 2026-10-03 14:50 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-03 14:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-10-03 03:09 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-03 03:09 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-10-02 15:27 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-10-02 03:41 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-02 03:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-10-01 19:51 UTCEPSS rescore
  10. 2026-10-01 16:00 UTCGHSA enrichment
  11. 2026-10-01 04:18 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-09-30 16:37 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-09-30 16:37 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-09-30 15:04 UTCEPSS rescore
  15. 2026-09-30 03:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-09-29 16:14 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-09-29 16:14 UTCGHSA enrichment
  18. 2026-09-29 04:32 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-09-29 04:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
  20. 2026-09-28 16:50 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-09-28 16:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
  22. 2026-09-28 13:52 UTCEPSS rescore
  23. 2026-09-28 05:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
  24. 2026-09-27 17:27 UTCGHSA enrichment
  25. 2026-09-27 05:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  1. 2026-09-26 18:04 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-09-26 18:04 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-09-26 15:59 UTCEPSS rescore
  4. 2026-09-26 06:23 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-09-26 06:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-09-25 18:40 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-09-25 18:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-09-25 18:15 UTCEG score recompute▲ 7.30
  9. 2026-09-25 18:15 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-09-25 18:14 UTCMITRE cvelistV5CVSS v3 → 7.3 · severity → HIGH
  11. 2026-09-24 21:16 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-09-24 16:30 UTCNVD update
  13. 2026-09-24 15:47 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-09-24 15:46 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-88369?
CVE-2026-88369 is a high vulnerability published on September 24, 2026. zserge jsmn commit 25647e6 is vulnerable to Buffer Overflow in example/jsondump.c dump().
When was CVE-2026-88369 disclosed?
CVE-2026-88369 was first published on September 24, 2026, with the most recent update on September 25, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-88369 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-88369 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (13th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-88369?
CVE-2026-88369 has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.3 (CISA-ADP / Vulnrichment enrichment; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-88369?
No fix for CVE-2026-88369 is confirmed yet. Until one is published, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation — for example, keep it off the internet or limit it to trusted networks — and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-88369 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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