CVE-2022-23462: Softmotions Iowow

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IOWOW is a C utility library and persistent key/value storage engine. Versions 1.4.15 and prior contain a stack buffer overflow vulnerability that allows for Denial of Service (DOS) when it parses scientific notation numbers present in JSON. A patch for this issue is available at commit a79d31e4cff1d5a08f665574b29fd885897a28fd in the `master` branch of the repository. There are no workarounds other than applying the patch.

Affected products

• Softmotions Iowow: up to and including 1.4.15

Published 2022-10-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.