# CVE-2026-115801: Kakao khaiii JSON Config File Linear.cpp open out-of-bounds

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-109192
- Severity: CVSS 4.8 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-10-23 · Updated: 2026-10-29

## Summary

Kakao khaiii, a Korean morphological analyzer, is affected through a flaw in how its JSON configuration files are loaded. A local attacker can exploit this out-of-bounds read to access memory outside the intended buffer, which could expose data or crash the program.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- Kakao khaiii: 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4

## Description

A security flaw has been discovered in Kakao khaiii up to 0.4. The impacted element is the function khaiii::nn::Linear::open of the file src/main/cpp/khaiii/nn/Linear.cpp of the component JSON Config File Handler. The manipulation of the argument hidden_dim/class_num results in out-of-bounds read. The attack requires a local approach. The exploit has been released to the public and may be used for attacks. The vendor explains: "khaiii treats the resource directory (--rsc-dir) as trusted input, like a binary or a shared library. To use this defect, an attacker must already be able to write to that directory. With that access, an attacker can change the analysis results without this defect." This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Kakao khaiii, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://vuldb.com/vuln/425983
- https://vuldb.com/vuln/425983/cti
- https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-115801
- https://vuldb.com/submit/1022283
- https://github.com/kakao/khaiii/issues/129
- https://github.com/user-attachments/files/33260270/poc.zip
- https://github.com/kakao/khaiii/

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