Accept ill-formed UTF-8 in all binary readers again

RFC 8949 and the MessagePack/BSON/UBJSON/BJData specs leave UTF-8
well-formedness checking up to the decoder, so following #5529 the
binary readers are lenient by default again, as in release 3.12.0
(the reader-side check was added by #5185/#5531, not in any release);
reader-side validation becomes opt-in in a follow-up PR. The writers
stay strict and throw type_error.316 for ill-formed UTF-8. BON8 is
unchanged, since UTF-8 lead bytes are structural there.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

docs/mkdocs/docs/api/basic_json/to_bjdata.md

@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ Strong guarantee: if an exception is thrown, there are no changes in the JSON va
 
 - Throws [`other_error.502`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionother_error502) if `use_type` is true and `use_size`
   is false.
+- Throws [type_error.316](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptiontype_error316) if a string or object key in `j` is
+  not valid UTF-8
 
 ## Complexity
 
@@ -89,4 +91,5 @@ Linear in the size of the JSON value `j`.
 ## Version history
 
 - Added in version 3.11.0.
-- BJData version parameter (for draft3 binary encoding) added in version 3.12.0.
+- BJData version parameter (for draft3 binary encoding) added in version 3.12.0.
+- Throwing `type_error.316` for a string or object key that is not valid UTF-8 added in version 3.13.0.

docs/mkdocs/docs/api/basic_json/to_bson.md

@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ Strong guarantee: if an exception is thrown, there are no changes in the JSON va
 - Throws [`out_of_range.415`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionout_of_range415) if the subtype of a binary value
   exceeds 255, the maximum of the BSON binary subtype; example:
   `"subtype 70000 is too large for the BSON binary subtype (max 255)"`
+- Throws [type_error.316](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptiontype_error316) if a string or object key is
+  not valid UTF-8
 
 ## Complexity
 
@@ -82,3 +84,5 @@ pass before anything is written.
 - Added in version 3.4.0.
 - Linear in the size of `j`, and no longer limited by the call stack for deeply nested values, since version 3.13.0.
 - `out_of_range.415` is now detected before anything is written, like the other exceptions above, since version 3.13.0.
+- Throwing `type_error.316` for a string value or object key that is not valid UTF-8, detected before anything is
+  written, added in version 3.13.0.

docs/mkdocs/docs/api/basic_json/to_cbor.md

@@ -35,6 +35,11 @@ The exact mapping and its limitations are described on a [dedicated page](../../
 
 Strong guarantee: if an exception is thrown, there are no changes in the JSON value.
 
+## Exceptions
+
+- Throws [type_error.316](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptiontype_error316) if a string or object key in `j` is
+  not valid UTF-8
+
 ## Complexity
 
 Linear in the size of the JSON value `j`.
@@ -68,3 +73,4 @@ Linear in the size of the JSON value `j`.
 
 - Added in version 2.0.9.
 - Compact representation of floating-point numbers added in version 3.8.0.
+- Throwing `type_error.316` for a string or object key that is not valid UTF-8 added in version 3.13.0.

docs/mkdocs/docs/api/basic_json/to_ubjson.md

@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ Strong guarantee: if an exception is thrown, there are no changes in the JSON va
 
 - Throws [`other_error.502`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionother_error502) if `use_type` is true and `use_size`
   is false.
+- Throws [type_error.316](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptiontype_error316) if a string or object key in `j` is
+  not valid UTF-8
 
 ## Complexity
 
@@ -82,3 +84,4 @@ Linear in the size of the JSON value `j`.
 ## Version history
 
 - Added in version 3.1.0.
+- Throwing `type_error.316` for a string or object key that is not valid UTF-8 added in version 3.13.0.

docs/mkdocs/docs/features/binary_formats/bjdata.md

@@ -63,6 +63,12 @@ The library uses the following mapping from JSON values types to BJData types ac
 
       - strings with more than 18446744073709551615 bytes, i.e., 2<sup>64</sup>-1 bytes (theoretical)
 
+!!! warning "UTF-8 validation of string values and object keys"
+
+    BJData strings must use UTF-8 encoding. `to_bjdata()` validates the bytes of every string value and object key
+    and throws [`type_error.316`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptiontype_error316) for ill-formed UTF-8, so a
+    value with such a string cannot be serialized in the first place.
+
 !!! info "Unused BJData markers"
 
     The following markers are not used in the conversion:
@@ -208,6 +214,15 @@ The library maps BJData types to JSON value types as follows:
 
     The mapping is **complete** in the sense that any BJData value can be converted to a JSON value.
 
+!!! warning "Ill-formed UTF-8 in string values and object keys"
+
+    BJData strings must use UTF-8 encoding, but this is not enforced on read: `from_bjdata()` accepts a string
+    value or object key whose bytes are not valid UTF-8 and hands them back unchanged. However,
+    [`dump()`](../../api/basic_json/dump.md) still requires valid UTF-8 and throws
+    [`type_error.316`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptiontype_error316) for such a value, unless an error
+    handler is passed that replaces or ignores the ill-formed bytes. `to_bjdata()` is strict as well (see above), so
+    a value read this way cannot be written back to BJData.
+
 !!! info "Round trips"
 
     A value returned by [`from_bjdata`](../../api/basic_json/from_bjdata.md) can be serialized with

docs/mkdocs/docs/features/binary_formats/bson.md

@@ -109,14 +109,17 @@ The library maps BSON record types to JSON value types as follows:
     If BSON input must be validated for strict specification compliance, validate it separately before passing it to
     `from_bson()`.
 
-!!! warning "UTF-8 validation of string values"
+!!! warning "Ill-formed UTF-8 in string values"
 
-    The BSON specification requires `string` values (type `0x02`) to be valid UTF-8. This library validates the
-    bytes of every such string at decode time and rejects ill-formed UTF-8 with a
-    [`parse_error.113`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionparse_error113) exception (or, with `allow_exceptions`
-    set to `false`, a discarded value), rather than only failing later when the resulting value is dumped. Element
-    (key) names and `binary` values (type `0x05`) are unaffected and are never validated, since they are read
-    byte-by-byte as a C string, or are not required to hold text, respectively.
+    The BSON specification requires `string` values (type `0x02`) to be valid UTF-8, but this is not required of a
+    decoder. `from_bson()` accepts a `string` value whose bytes are not valid UTF-8 and hands them back unchanged.
+    However, [`dump()`](../../api/basic_json/dump.md) still requires valid UTF-8 and throws
+    [`type_error.316`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptiontype_error316) for such a value, unless an error
+    handler is passed that replaces or ignores the ill-formed bytes. `to_bson()` is strict as well and throws the
+    same exception for a string value or element (key) name that is not valid UTF-8, so an object with such a key
+    or value cannot be produced in the first place, even though `from_bson()` would accept it from another source.
+    Element (key) names are never validated on read, since they are read byte-by-byte as a C string. `binary`
+    values (type `0x05`) are unaffected, since they are not required to hold text.
 
 ??? example
 

docs/mkdocs/docs/features/binary_formats/cbor.md

@@ -189,15 +189,16 @@ The library maps CBOR types to JSON value types as follows:
     ([RFC 8392](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8392.html)), cannot be read with this library and need a
     general-purpose CBOR library instead.
 
-!!! warning "UTF-8 validation of text strings"
+!!! warning "Ill-formed UTF-8 in text strings"
 
     [RFC 8949, Section 3.1](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8949.html#section-3.1) requires CBOR text strings
-    (major type 3) to be valid UTF-8. This library validates the bytes of every text string (object keys included) at
-    decode time and rejects ill-formed UTF-8 with a
-    [`parse_error.113`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionparse_error113) exception (or, with
-    `allow_exceptions` set to `false`, a discarded value), rather than only failing later when the resulting value is
-    dumped. Byte strings (major type 2) are unaffected and are never validated, since they are not required to hold
-    text.
+    (major type 3) to be valid UTF-8, but leaves it up to the decoder whether to enforce this. This library does
+    not: `from_cbor()` accepts a text string (object keys included) whose bytes are not valid UTF-8 and hands them
+    back unchanged. However, [`dump()`](../../api/basic_json/dump.md) still requires valid UTF-8 and throws
+    [`type_error.316`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptiontype_error316) for such a value, unless an error
+    handler is passed that replaces or ignores the ill-formed bytes. `to_cbor()` is strict as well and throws the
+    same exception for a string value or object key that is not valid UTF-8, so such a value cannot be written back
+    to CBOR. Byte strings (major type 2) are unaffected, since they are not required to hold text.
 
 !!! warning "Tagged items"
 

docs/mkdocs/docs/features/binary_formats/messagepack.md

@@ -153,14 +153,15 @@ The library maps MessagePack types to JSON value types as follows:
     This applies to the [SAX interface](../parsing/sax_interface.md) as well, as the key is read before it is passed
     on. Such input needs a general-purpose MessagePack library instead.
 
-!!! warning "UTF-8 validation of string values"
+!!! warning "Ill-formed UTF-8 in string values"
 
-    The MessagePack specification requires `str` values (`fixstr`, `str 8`, `str 16`, `str 32`) to be valid UTF-8.
-    This library validates the bytes of every such string (object keys included) at decode time and rejects
-    ill-formed UTF-8 with a [`parse_error.113`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionparse_error113) exception (or,
-    with `allow_exceptions` set to `false`, a discarded value), rather than only failing later when the resulting
-    value is dumped. `bin`/`ext`/`fixext` values are unaffected and are never validated, since they are not required
-    to hold text.
+    The MessagePack specification explicitly allows a `str` value (`fixstr`, `str 8`, `str 16`, `str 32`) to contain
+    a byte sequence that is not valid UTF-8, and expects a deserializer to hand the original bytes back unchanged.
+    This library follows that: `from_msgpack()` reads `str` bytes (object keys included) as-is, without validating
+    them, and `to_msgpack()` writes them back as-is, so such a value round-trips through `from_msgpack(to_msgpack(j))`
+    byte for byte. However, [`dump()`](../../api/basic_json/dump.md) still requires valid UTF-8 and throws
+    [`type_error.316`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptiontype_error316) for a value read this way, unless an
+    error handler is passed that replaces or ignores the ill-formed bytes.
 
 ??? example
 

docs/mkdocs/docs/features/binary_formats/ubjson.md

@@ -47,6 +47,12 @@ The library uses the following mapping from JSON values types to UBJSON types ac
 
       - strings with more than 9223372036854775807 bytes (theoretical)
 
+!!! warning "UTF-8 validation of string values and object keys"
+
+    UBJSON's required string encoding is UTF-8. `to_ubjson()` validates the bytes of every string value and object
+    key and throws [`type_error.316`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptiontype_error316) for ill-formed UTF-8, so
+    a value with such a string cannot be serialized in the first place.
+
 !!! info "Unused UBJSON markers"
 
     The following markers are not used in the conversion:
@@ -120,6 +126,15 @@ The library maps UBJSON types to JSON value types as follows:
 
     The mapping is **complete** in the sense that any UBJSON value can be converted to a JSON value.
 
+!!! warning "Ill-formed UTF-8 in string values and object keys"
+
+    UBJSON's required string encoding is UTF-8, but this is not enforced on read: `from_ubjson()` accepts a string
+    value or object key whose bytes are not valid UTF-8 and hands them back unchanged. However,
+    [`dump()`](../../api/basic_json/dump.md) still requires valid UTF-8 and throws
+    [`type_error.316`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptiontype_error316) for such a value, unless an error
+    handler is passed that replaces or ignores the ill-formed bytes. `to_ubjson()` is strict as well (see above), so
+    a value read this way cannot be written back to UBJSON.
+
 ??? example
 
     ```cpp

docs/mkdocs/docs/home/exceptions.md

@@ -340,8 +340,9 @@ An unexpected byte was read in a [binary format](../features/binary_formats/inde
 ### json.exception.parse_error.113
 
 A string could not be read from a [binary format](../features/binary_formats/index.md): either a value that is not a
-string was read where one was required (for instance as a map key), the string's length specification is invalid, or
-the string's bytes are not valid UTF-8.
+string was read where one was required (for instance as a map key), or the string's length specification is invalid.
+The bytes of a string itself are not checked for valid UTF-8 on read; see the ill-formed UTF-8 notes on the
+individual [binary format](../features/binary_formats/index.md) pages for how such a string is handled afterward.
 
 CBOR and MessagePack allow map keys of any type, but JSON object keys are always strings. Maps with keys of any other
 type (for instance integers or `null`) are therefore not supported; see the notes on
@@ -364,9 +365,6 @@ type (for instance integers or `null`) are therefore not supported; see the note
     ```
     [json.exception.parse_error.113] parse error at byte 3: syntax error while parsing BJData string: string length must not be negative
     ```
-    ```
-    [json.exception.parse_error.113] parse error at byte 3: syntax error while parsing CBOR string: invalid string: ill-formed UTF-8 byte
-    ```
 
 ### json.exception.parse_error.114
 

include/nlohmann/detail/input/binary_reader.hpp

@@ -4031,28 +4031,13 @@ class binary_reader
                     const NumberType len,
                     string_t& result)
     {
-        // get_bytes() appends to result, and CBOR indefinite-length strings
-        // collect all their chunks in the same result; validating only the
-        // newly read bytes keeps the check linear in the input size
-        const std::size_t old_size = result.size();
-        if (JSON_HEDLEY_UNLIKELY(!get_bytes(format, len, "string", result)))
-        {
-            return false;
-        }
-
-        // RFC 8949 (CBOR) §3.1 and the MessagePack/BSON/UBJSON specifications
-        // all require text strings to be valid UTF-8; reject anything else
-        // right here so malformed input is caught at decode time instead of
-        // only surfacing later as a type_error.316 when the value is dumped
-        // (which would defeat allow_exceptions=false / strict discarding).
-        if (JSON_HEDLEY_UNLIKELY(!is_valid_utf8(result, old_size)))
-        {
-            return sax->parse_error(chars_read, get_token_string(),
-                                    parse_error::create(113, chars_read,
-                                            exception_message(format, "invalid string: ill-formed UTF-8 byte", "string"), nullptr));
-        }
-
-        return true;
+        // Strings are taken as is: none of CBOR (RFC 8949 §3.1 leaves the
+        // choice to the decoder), MessagePack (whose spec explicitly allows
+        // a str object to contain an invalid byte sequence), UBJSON, BJData,
+        // or BSON requires a decoder to reject ill-formed UTF-8. The bytes
+        // are kept unchanged; dump() and the binary writers are the ones
+        // that check them and report type_error.316 if they are not valid.
+        return get_bytes(format, len, "string", result);
     }
 
     /*!

include/nlohmann/detail/output/binary_writer.hpp

@@ -115,6 +115,8 @@ class binary_writer
 
     /*!
     @param[in] j  JSON value to serialize
+    @throw type_error.316 if a string value or an object key is not valid
+           UTF-8
     @throw type_error.317 if @a j is not an object
     */
     void write_bson(const BasicJsonType& j)
@@ -145,6 +147,8 @@ class binary_writer
 
     /*!
     @param[in] j  JSON value to serialize
+    @throw type_error.316 if a string value or an object key is not valid
+           UTF-8
     */
     void write_cbor(const BasicJsonType& j)
     {
@@ -211,6 +215,8 @@ class binary_writer
 
             case value_t::string:
             {
+                check_utf8(*j.m_data.m_value.string, j);
+
                 // step 1: write control byte and the string length
                 write_cbor_head(0x60, j.m_data.m_value.string->size());
 
@@ -287,6 +293,11 @@ class binary_writer
                 // step 2: write each element
                 for (const auto& el : *j.m_data.m_value.object)
                 {
+                    // el.first is checked here, against the object as
+                    // diagnostics context, because write_cbor(el.first)
+                    // converts it to a temporary basic_json that would be
+                    // used as the context instead
+                    check_utf8(el.first, j);
                     write_cbor(el.first);
                     write_cbor(el.second);
                 }
@@ -629,6 +640,8 @@ class binary_writer
     @param[in] add_prefix  whether prefixes need to be used for this value
     @param[in] use_bjdata  whether write in BJData format, default is false
     @param[in] bjdata_version  which BJData version to use, default is draft2
+    @throw type_error.316 if a string value or an object key is not valid
+           UTF-8
     */
     void write_ubjson(const BasicJsonType& j, const bool use_count,
                       const bool use_type, const bool add_prefix = true,
@@ -678,6 +691,8 @@ class binary_writer
 
             case value_t::string:
             {
+                check_utf8(*j.m_data.m_value.string, j);
+
                 if (add_prefix)
                 {
                     oa.write_character(to_char_type('S'));
@@ -840,6 +855,7 @@ class binary_writer
 
                 for (const auto& el : *j.m_data.m_value.object)
                 {
+                    check_utf8(el.first, j);
                     write_number_with_ubjson_prefix(el.first.size(), true, use_bjdata);
                     oa.write_characters(
                           reinterpret_cast<const CharType*>(el.first.data()),
@@ -884,6 +900,10 @@ class binary_writer
     /*!
     @return The size of a BSON document entry header, including the id marker
             and the entry name size (and its null-terminator).
+    @throw out_of_range.409 if @a name contains U+0000, before anything is
+           written
+    @throw type_error.316 if @a name is not valid UTF-8, before anything is
+           written
     */
     static std::size_t calc_bson_entry_header_size(const string_t& name, const BasicJsonType& j)
     {
@@ -893,7 +913,8 @@ class binary_writer
             JSON_THROW(out_of_range::create(409, concat("BSON key cannot contain code point U+0000 (at byte ", std::to_string(it), ")"), &j));
         }
 
-        static_cast<void>(j);
+        check_utf8(name, j);
+
         return /*id*/ 1ul + name.size() + /*zero-terminator*/1u;
     }
 
@@ -949,9 +970,21 @@ class binary_writer
 
     /*!
     @return The size of the BSON-encoded string in @a value
+    @throw type_error.316 if @a value is not valid UTF-8, before anything is
+           written
+
+    @note The UTF-8 check is skipped if @a value is already too long for the
+          32-bit BSON length field (@ref to_bson_length rejects it later, once
+          the size of the whole document is known); this also keeps the check
+          from reading past a StringType that reports a size larger than what
+          it actually holds.
     */
-    static std::size_t calc_bson_string_size(const string_t& value)
+    static std::size_t calc_bson_string_size(const string_t& value, const BasicJsonType& j)
     {
+        if (JSON_HEDLEY_LIKELY(value_in_range_of<std::int32_t>(value.size())))
+        {
+            check_utf8(value, j);
+        }
         return sizeof(std::int32_t) + value.size() + 1ul;
     }
 
@@ -1080,6 +1113,8 @@ class binary_writer
             is neither an object nor an array
     @throw out_of_range.415 if @a j is binary with a subtype that does not fit
            into a byte, before anything is written
+    @throw type_error.316 if @a j is a string that is not valid UTF-8, before
+           anything is written
     */
     static std::size_t calc_bson_value_size(const BasicJsonType& j)
     {
@@ -1101,7 +1136,7 @@ class binary_writer
                 return calc_bson_unsigned_size(j.m_data.m_value.number_unsigned);
 
             case value_t::string:
-                return calc_bson_string_size(*j.m_data.m_value.string);
+                return calc_bson_string_size(*j.m_data.m_value.string, j);
 
             case value_t::null:
                 return 0ul;
@@ -1214,6 +1249,8 @@ class binary_writer
            written
     @throw out_of_range.415 if a binary value's subtype does not fit into a
            byte, before anything is written
+    @throw type_error.316 if a string value or a key is not valid UTF-8,
+           before anything is written
     */
     static std::size_t calc_bson_sizes(const BasicJsonType& document, std::vector<std::size_t>& nested_sizes)
     {
@@ -2092,7 +2129,7 @@ class binary_writer
     */
     void write_bon8_string(const string_t& s, bool& string_open, const BasicJsonType& context)
     {
-        check_bon8_utf8(s, context);
+        check_utf8(s, context);
 
         // a string that follows another string terminates it
         if (string_open)
@@ -2122,7 +2159,7 @@ class binary_writer
     @throw type_error.316 if @a s is not valid UTF-8; the message names the
            first byte of the first invalid or incomplete sequence
     */
-    static void check_bon8_utf8(const string_t& s, const BasicJsonType& context)
+    static void check_utf8(const string_t& s, const BasicJsonType& context)
     {
         static_cast<void>(context); // only used when exceptions are enabled
         const auto* data = reinterpret_cast<const unsigned char*>(s.data());

include/nlohmann/detail/string_utils.hpp

@@ -117,13 +117,14 @@ This is a single-byte step of a "shift-based" UTF-8 decoder originally
 written by Björn Hoehrmann. See
 http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de/utf-8/decoder/dfa/ for details.
 
-The library checks UTF-8 well-formedness (RFC 3629, section 4) in four
+The library checks UTF-8 well-formedness (RFC 3629, section 4) in three
 places, which differ in speed, diagnostics, and how they read the input:
 
-- decode() and @ref is_valid_utf8 below: the serializer (to escape and, in
-  strict mode, reject ill-formed UTF-8 when dumping a string) and the CBOR,
-  MessagePack, BSON, UBJSON and BJData readers (to reject ill-formed UTF-8 in
-  text strings at decode time).
+- decode() below: the serializer, to escape and, in strict mode, reject
+  ill-formed UTF-8 when dumping a string. The CBOR, MessagePack, BSON,
+  UBJSON and BJData readers do not use it: none of those specs requires a
+  decoder to reject ill-formed UTF-8 in text strings, so the readers keep
+  the bytes as is and leave the check to dump() and the binary writers.
 - the per-lead-byte switch in lexer::scan_string(): JSON text, with a
   diagnostic for each kind of error.
 - validate_one_utf8() and valid_utf8_prefix() in string_scan.hpp: the lexer's
@@ -178,38 +179,5 @@ inline std::uint8_t decode(std::uint8_t& state, std::uint32_t& codep, const std:
     return state;
 }
 
-/*!
-@brief check whether a string consists solely of valid UTF-8
-
-Used by the CBOR/MessagePack/BSON/UBJSON binary readers to reject text
-strings that are not valid UTF-8 at decode time (RFC 8949 §3.1 and the
-MessagePack/BSON specifications all require text strings to be UTF-8), so
-that malformed input is caught immediately instead of only surfacing later
-as a type_error.316 when the resulting value is dumped.
-
-@param[in] s      the string to check
-@param[in] first  index of the first byte to check; the bytes before it are
-                  assumed to have been validated already and to end on a
-                  code point boundary
-@return whether @a s (from index @a first on) is valid UTF-8
-*/
-template<typename StringType>
-inline bool is_valid_utf8(const StringType& s, const std::size_t first = 0) noexcept
-{
-    std::uint8_t state = UTF8_ACCEPT;
-    std::uint32_t codepoint = 0;
-
-    for (std::size_t i = first; i < s.size(); ++i)
-    {
-        decode(state, codepoint, static_cast<std::uint8_t>(s[i]));
-        if (state == UTF8_REJECT)
-        {
-            return false;
-        }
-    }
-
-    return state == UTF8_ACCEPT;
-}
-
 }  // namespace detail
 NLOHMANN_JSON_NAMESPACE_END

include/nlohmann/json.hpp

@@ -763,15 +763,6 @@ class basic_json // NOLINT(cppcoreguidelines-special-member-functions,hicpp-spec
         static_cast<void>(check_parents);
     }
 
-    // GCC 13 to at least 15 report a false -Warray-bounds error when set_parents()
-    // is inlined at -O3 right after a non-container value was created: the analysis
-    // does not use m_type to rule out the object/array branches and checks
-    // the std::map access against the allocation of, e.g., a string.
-    // See https://github.com/nlohmann/json/issues/5742 and #4819.
-#if defined(__GNUC__) && !defined(__clang__)
-#pragma GCC diagnostic push
-#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Warray-bounds"
-#endif
     void set_parents()
     {
 #if JSON_DIAGNOSTICS
@@ -808,9 +799,6 @@ class basic_json // NOLINT(cppcoreguidelines-special-member-functions,hicpp-spec
         }
 #endif
     }
-#if defined(__GNUC__) && !defined(__clang__)
-#pragma GCC diagnostic pop
-#endif
 
     iterator set_parents(iterator it, std::ptrdiff_t count_set_parents)
     {

single_include/nlohmann/json.hpp

@@ -6321,13 +6321,14 @@ This is a single-byte step of a "shift-based" UTF-8 decoder originally
 written by Björn Hoehrmann. See
 http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de/utf-8/decoder/dfa/ for details.
 
-The library checks UTF-8 well-formedness (RFC 3629, section 4) in four
+The library checks UTF-8 well-formedness (RFC 3629, section 4) in three
 places, which differ in speed, diagnostics, and how they read the input:
 
-- decode() and @ref is_valid_utf8 below: the serializer (to escape and, in
-  strict mode, reject ill-formed UTF-8 when dumping a string) and the CBOR,
-  MessagePack, BSON, UBJSON and BJData readers (to reject ill-formed UTF-8 in
-  text strings at decode time).
+- decode() below: the serializer, to escape and, in strict mode, reject
+  ill-formed UTF-8 when dumping a string. The CBOR, MessagePack, BSON,
+  UBJSON and BJData readers do not use it: none of those specs requires a
+  decoder to reject ill-formed UTF-8 in text strings, so the readers keep
+  the bytes as is and leave the check to dump() and the binary writers.
 - the per-lead-byte switch in lexer::scan_string(): JSON text, with a
   diagnostic for each kind of error.
 - validate_one_utf8() and valid_utf8_prefix() in string_scan.hpp: the lexer's
@@ -6382,39 +6383,6 @@ inline std::uint8_t decode(std::uint8_t& state, std::uint32_t& codep, const std:
     return state;
 }
 
-/*!
-@brief check whether a string consists solely of valid UTF-8
-
-Used by the CBOR/MessagePack/BSON/UBJSON binary readers to reject text
-strings that are not valid UTF-8 at decode time (RFC 8949 §3.1 and the
-MessagePack/BSON specifications all require text strings to be UTF-8), so
-that malformed input is caught immediately instead of only surfacing later
-as a type_error.316 when the resulting value is dumped.
-
-@param[in] s      the string to check
-@param[in] first  index of the first byte to check; the bytes before it are
-                  assumed to have been validated already and to end on a
-                  code point boundary
-@return whether @a s (from index @a first on) is valid UTF-8
-*/
-template<typename StringType>
-inline bool is_valid_utf8(const StringType& s, const std::size_t first = 0) noexcept
-{
-    std::uint8_t state = UTF8_ACCEPT;
-    std::uint32_t codepoint = 0;
-
-    for (std::size_t i = first; i < s.size(); ++i)
-    {
-        decode(state, codepoint, static_cast<std::uint8_t>(s[i]));
-        if (state == UTF8_REJECT)
-        {
-            return false;
-        }
-    }
-
-    return state == UTF8_ACCEPT;
-}
-
 }  // namespace detail
 NLOHMANN_JSON_NAMESPACE_END
 
@@ -17544,28 +17512,13 @@ class binary_reader
                     const NumberType len,
                     string_t& result)
     {
-        // get_bytes() appends to result, and CBOR indefinite-length strings
-        // collect all their chunks in the same result; validating only the
-        // newly read bytes keeps the check linear in the input size
-        const std::size_t old_size = result.size();
-        if (JSON_HEDLEY_UNLIKELY(!get_bytes(format, len, "string", result)))
-        {
-            return false;
-        }
-
-        // RFC 8949 (CBOR) §3.1 and the MessagePack/BSON/UBJSON specifications
-        // all require text strings to be valid UTF-8; reject anything else
-        // right here so malformed input is caught at decode time instead of
-        // only surfacing later as a type_error.316 when the value is dumped
-        // (which would defeat allow_exceptions=false / strict discarding).
-        if (JSON_HEDLEY_UNLIKELY(!is_valid_utf8(result, old_size)))
-        {
-            return sax->parse_error(chars_read, get_token_string(),
-                                    parse_error::create(113, chars_read,
-                                            exception_message(format, "invalid string: ill-formed UTF-8 byte", "string"), nullptr));
-        }
-
-        return true;
+        // Strings are taken as is: none of CBOR (RFC 8949 §3.1 leaves the
+        // choice to the decoder), MessagePack (whose spec explicitly allows
+        // a str object to contain an invalid byte sequence), UBJSON, BJData,
+        // or BSON requires a decoder to reject ill-formed UTF-8. The bytes
+        // are kept unchanged; dump() and the binary writers are the ones
+        // that check them and report type_error.316 if they are not valid.
+        return get_bytes(format, len, "string", result);
     }
 
     /*!
@@ -21240,6 +21193,8 @@ class binary_writer
 
     /*!
     @param[in] j  JSON value to serialize
+    @throw type_error.316 if a string value or an object key is not valid
+           UTF-8
     @throw type_error.317 if @a j is not an object
     */
     void write_bson(const BasicJsonType& j)
@@ -21270,6 +21225,8 @@ class binary_writer
 
     /*!
     @param[in] j  JSON value to serialize
+    @throw type_error.316 if a string value or an object key is not valid
+           UTF-8
     */
     void write_cbor(const BasicJsonType& j)
     {
@@ -21336,6 +21293,8 @@ class binary_writer
 
             case value_t::string:
             {
+                check_utf8(*j.m_data.m_value.string, j);
+
                 // step 1: write control byte and the string length
                 write_cbor_head(0x60, j.m_data.m_value.string->size());
 
@@ -21412,6 +21371,11 @@ class binary_writer
                 // step 2: write each element
                 for (const auto& el : *j.m_data.m_value.object)
                 {
+                    // el.first is checked here, against the object as
+                    // diagnostics context, because write_cbor(el.first)
+                    // converts it to a temporary basic_json that would be
+                    // used as the context instead
+                    check_utf8(el.first, j);
                     write_cbor(el.first);
                     write_cbor(el.second);
                 }
@@ -21754,6 +21718,8 @@ class binary_writer
     @param[in] add_prefix  whether prefixes need to be used for this value
     @param[in] use_bjdata  whether write in BJData format, default is false
     @param[in] bjdata_version  which BJData version to use, default is draft2
+    @throw type_error.316 if a string value or an object key is not valid
+           UTF-8
     */
     void write_ubjson(const BasicJsonType& j, const bool use_count,
                       const bool use_type, const bool add_prefix = true,
@@ -21803,6 +21769,8 @@ class binary_writer
 
             case value_t::string:
             {
+                check_utf8(*j.m_data.m_value.string, j);
+
                 if (add_prefix)
                 {
                     oa.write_character(to_char_type('S'));
@@ -21965,6 +21933,7 @@ class binary_writer
 
                 for (const auto& el : *j.m_data.m_value.object)
                 {
+                    check_utf8(el.first, j);
                     write_number_with_ubjson_prefix(el.first.size(), true, use_bjdata);
                     oa.write_characters(
                           reinterpret_cast<const CharType*>(el.first.data()),
@@ -22009,6 +21978,10 @@ class binary_writer
     /*!
     @return The size of a BSON document entry header, including the id marker
             and the entry name size (and its null-terminator).
+    @throw out_of_range.409 if @a name contains U+0000, before anything is
+           written
+    @throw type_error.316 if @a name is not valid UTF-8, before anything is
+           written
     */
     static std::size_t calc_bson_entry_header_size(const string_t& name, const BasicJsonType& j)
     {
@@ -22018,7 +21991,8 @@ class binary_writer
             JSON_THROW(out_of_range::create(409, concat("BSON key cannot contain code point U+0000 (at byte ", std::to_string(it), ")"), &j));
         }
 
-        static_cast<void>(j);
+        check_utf8(name, j);
+
         return /*id*/ 1ul + name.size() + /*zero-terminator*/1u;
     }
 
@@ -22074,9 +22048,21 @@ class binary_writer
 
     /*!
     @return The size of the BSON-encoded string in @a value
+    @throw type_error.316 if @a value is not valid UTF-8, before anything is
+           written
+
+    @note The UTF-8 check is skipped if @a value is already too long for the
+          32-bit BSON length field (@ref to_bson_length rejects it later, once
+          the size of the whole document is known); this also keeps the check
+          from reading past a StringType that reports a size larger than what
+          it actually holds.
     */
-    static std::size_t calc_bson_string_size(const string_t& value)
+    static std::size_t calc_bson_string_size(const string_t& value, const BasicJsonType& j)
     {
+        if (JSON_HEDLEY_LIKELY(value_in_range_of<std::int32_t>(value.size())))
+        {
+            check_utf8(value, j);
+        }
         return sizeof(std::int32_t) + value.size() + 1ul;
     }
 
@@ -22205,6 +22191,8 @@ class binary_writer
             is neither an object nor an array
     @throw out_of_range.415 if @a j is binary with a subtype that does not fit
            into a byte, before anything is written
+    @throw type_error.316 if @a j is a string that is not valid UTF-8, before
+           anything is written
     */
     static std::size_t calc_bson_value_size(const BasicJsonType& j)
     {
@@ -22226,7 +22214,7 @@ class binary_writer
                 return calc_bson_unsigned_size(j.m_data.m_value.number_unsigned);
 
             case value_t::string:
-                return calc_bson_string_size(*j.m_data.m_value.string);
+                return calc_bson_string_size(*j.m_data.m_value.string, j);
 
             case value_t::null:
                 return 0ul;
@@ -22339,6 +22327,8 @@ class binary_writer
            written
     @throw out_of_range.415 if a binary value's subtype does not fit into a
            byte, before anything is written
+    @throw type_error.316 if a string value or a key is not valid UTF-8,
+           before anything is written
     */
     static std::size_t calc_bson_sizes(const BasicJsonType& document, std::vector<std::size_t>& nested_sizes)
     {
@@ -23217,7 +23207,7 @@ class binary_writer
     */
     void write_bon8_string(const string_t& s, bool& string_open, const BasicJsonType& context)
     {
-        check_bon8_utf8(s, context);
+        check_utf8(s, context);
 
         // a string that follows another string terminates it
         if (string_open)
@@ -23247,7 +23237,7 @@ class binary_writer
     @throw type_error.316 if @a s is not valid UTF-8; the message names the
            first byte of the first invalid or incomplete sequence
     */
-    static void check_bon8_utf8(const string_t& s, const BasicJsonType& context)
+    static void check_utf8(const string_t& s, const BasicJsonType& context)
     {
         static_cast<void>(context); // only used when exceptions are enabled
         const auto* data = reinterpret_cast<const unsigned char*>(s.data());
@@ -27441,15 +27431,6 @@ class basic_json // NOLINT(cppcoreguidelines-special-member-functions,hicpp-spec
         static_cast<void>(check_parents);
     }
 
-    // GCC 13 to at least 15 report a false -Warray-bounds error when set_parents()
-    // is inlined at -O3 right after a non-container value was created: the analysis
-    // does not use m_type to rule out the object/array branches and checks
-    // the std::map access against the allocation of, e.g., a string.
-    // See https://github.com/nlohmann/json/issues/5742 and #4819.
-#if defined(__GNUC__) && !defined(__clang__)
-#pragma GCC diagnostic push
-#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Warray-bounds"
-#endif
     void set_parents()
     {
 #if JSON_DIAGNOSTICS
@@ -27486,9 +27467,6 @@ class basic_json // NOLINT(cppcoreguidelines-special-member-functions,hicpp-spec
         }
 #endif
     }
-#if defined(__GNUC__) && !defined(__clang__)
-#pragma GCC diagnostic pop
-#endif
 
     iterator set_parents(iterator it, std::ptrdiff_t count_set_parents)
     {

tests/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -139,11 +139,6 @@ json_test_set_test_options(test-unicode4 TEST_PROPERTIES TIMEOUT 3000)
 # only the #972 regression test needs thirdparty/fifo_map on its include path
 json_test_set_test_options(test-regression1 LINK_LIBRARIES fifo_map_include)
 
-# GCC's false -Warray-bounds error with JSON_DIAGNOSTICS only shows up when optimizing (#5742)
-json_test_set_test_options(test-diagnostics-optimized
-    COMPILE_OPTIONS $<$<CXX_COMPILER_ID:GNU>:-O3 -Werror=array-bounds>
-)
-
 #############################################################################
 # add unit tests
 #############################################################################

tests/src/unit-bjdata.cpp

@@ -3907,6 +3907,41 @@ TEST_CASE("Universal Binary JSON Specification Examples 1")
             CHECK(json::to_bjdata(j) == v);
             CHECK(json::from_bjdata(v) == j);
         }
+
+        SECTION("ill-formed UTF-8 (see #5529, #5651)")
+        {
+            // none of the binary format specs requires a decoder to reject
+            // ill-formed UTF-8 in a text string, so a value whose bytes are
+            // not valid UTF-8 (0xC0 0xAE is an overlong encoding of '.')
+            // round-trips byte for byte as a string value; to_bjdata() is
+            // strict, so such a value cannot be written back
+            const std::vector<uint8_t> v = {'S', 'i', 2, 0xc0, 0xae};
+            json j;
+            CHECK_NOTHROW(j = json::from_bjdata(v));
+            REQUIRE(j.is_string());
+            CHECK(j.get_ref<const json::string_t&>() == std::string("\xc0\xae"));
+            CHECK_THROWS_AS(j.dump(), json::type_error&);
+            CHECK_THROWS_AS(json::to_bjdata(j), json::type_error&);
+
+            // the same bytes as an object key round-trip as well
+            const std::vector<uint8_t> v_key = {'{', 'i', 2, 0xc0, 0xae, 'i', 1, '}'};
+            json j_key;
+            CHECK_NOTHROW(j_key = json::from_bjdata(v_key));
+            REQUIRE(j_key.is_object());
+            CHECK(j_key.contains(std::string("\xc0\xae")));
+            CHECK_THROWS_AS(json::to_bjdata(j_key), json::type_error&);
+
+            CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(json::to_bjdata(json("\xFF")), "[json.exception.type_error.316] invalid UTF-8 byte at index 0: 0xFF", json::type_error&);
+            // a truncated multi-byte sequence
+            CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(json::to_bjdata(json("\xC3")), "[json.exception.type_error.316] invalid UTF-8 byte at index 0: 0xC3", json::type_error&);
+            // an encoded surrogate half (U+D800)
+            CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(json::to_bjdata(json("\xED\xA0\x80")), "[json.exception.type_error.316] invalid UTF-8 byte at index 0: 0xED", json::type_error&);
+            // an overlong encoding of '.'
+            CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(json::to_bjdata(json("\xC0\xAF")), "[json.exception.type_error.316] invalid UTF-8 byte at index 0: 0xC0", json::type_error&);
+
+            // an object key with ill-formed UTF-8 is rejected the same way
+            CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(json::to_bjdata(json{{"\xFF", 1}}), "[json.exception.type_error.316] invalid UTF-8 byte at index 0: 0xFF", json::type_error&);
+        }
     }
 
     SECTION("Array Type")

tests/src/unit-bson.cpp

@@ -154,6 +154,51 @@ TEST_CASE("BSON")
 #endif
     }
 
+    SECTION("ill-formed UTF-8 (see #5529, #5651)")
+    {
+        // a BSON document {"s": "\xC0\xAE"} (0xC0 0xAE is an overlong
+        // encoding of '.'); the BSON spec does not require a decoder to
+        // reject ill-formed UTF-8 in a string value, so the reader hands the
+        // bytes back unchanged
+        const std::vector<uint8_t> v =
+        {
+            0x0F, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // document length
+            0x02, 's', 0x00,        // type 0x02 (string), key "s"
+            0x03, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, // string length (including null)
+            0xc0, 0xae, 0x00,       // string content and its null terminator
+            0x00                    // document terminator
+        };
+        json j;
+        CHECK_NOTHROW(j = json::from_bson(v));
+        REQUIRE(j.is_object());
+        REQUIRE(j.contains("s"));
+        CHECK(j["s"].get_ref<const json::string_t&>() == std::string("\xc0\xae"));
+        // dump() still requires valid UTF-8 and throws for such a value
+        CHECK_THROWS_AS(j.dump(), json::type_error&);
+        // to_bson() is strict as well, so the value cannot be written back
+        CHECK_THROWS_AS(json::to_bson(j), json::type_error&);
+
+        // to_bson() rejects the same kind of ill-formed string value, before
+        // any bytes reach the output adapter (the BSON document length
+        // prefix must be known up front, so nothing is written incrementally)
+        std::vector<std::uint8_t> out{0x42}; // a sentinel byte the writer must not touch
+        CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(json::to_bson(json{{"s", "\xFF"}}, nlohmann::detail::output_adapter<std::uint8_t>(out)), "[json.exception.type_error.316] invalid UTF-8 byte at index 0: 0xFF", json::type_error&);
+        CHECK(out == std::vector<std::uint8_t> {0x42});
+
+        CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(json::to_bson(json{{"s", "\xFF"}}), "[json.exception.type_error.316] invalid UTF-8 byte at index 0: 0xFF", json::type_error&);
+        // a truncated multi-byte sequence
+        CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(json::to_bson(json{{"s", "\xC3"}}), "[json.exception.type_error.316] invalid UTF-8 byte at index 0: 0xC3", json::type_error&);
+        // an encoded surrogate half (U+D800)
+        CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(json::to_bson(json{{"s", "\xED\xA0\x80"}}), "[json.exception.type_error.316] invalid UTF-8 byte at index 0: 0xED", json::type_error&);
+        // an overlong encoding of '.'
+        CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(json::to_bson(json{{"s", "\xC0\xAF"}}), "[json.exception.type_error.316] invalid UTF-8 byte at index 0: 0xC0", json::type_error&);
+
+        // an object key with ill-formed UTF-8 is rejected as well; unlike
+        // the reader (which never validates element names), the writer
+        // checks both string values and object keys
+        CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(json::to_bson(json{{"\xFF", 1}}), "[json.exception.type_error.316] invalid UTF-8 byte at index 0: 0xFF", json::type_error&);
+    }
+
     SECTION("lengths exceeding INT32_MAX cannot be serialized to BSON")
     {
         // out_of_range.412 is thrown from a single shared helper

tests/src/unit-cbor.cpp

@@ -1801,19 +1801,40 @@ TEST_CASE("CBOR")
             CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(_ = json::from_cbor(std::vector<uint8_t>({0xA1, 0x7C, 0x01})), "[json.exception.parse_error.113] parse error at byte 2: syntax error while parsing CBOR string: expected length specification (0x60-0x7B) or indefinite string type (0x7F); last byte: 0x7C", json::parse_error&);
         }
 
-        SECTION("invalid UTF-8 in string (see #5529)")
+        SECTION("ill-formed UTF-8 in string (see #5529, #5651)")
         {
+            // RFC 8949 §3.1 leaves it up to the decoder whether to reject
+            // ill-formed UTF-8 in a text string; this library does not, and
+            // hands the original bytes back unchanged, matching the
+            // MessagePack reader and the behavior before #5185/#5531 (not in
+            // any release)
+
             // a two-character text string (major type 3) whose bytes are not
-            // valid UTF-8 (0xC0 0xAE is an overlong encoding of '.') must be
-            // rejected at decode time, matching every other kind of
-            // malformed binary input, rather than only failing later when
-            // the resulting value is dumped
-            json _;
-            CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(_ = json::from_cbor(std::vector<uint8_t>({0x62, 0xc0, 0xae})), "[json.exception.parse_error.113] parse error at byte 3: syntax error while parsing CBOR string: invalid string: ill-formed UTF-8 byte", json::parse_error&);
-            CHECK(json::from_cbor(std::vector<uint8_t>({0x62, 0xc0, 0xae}), true, false).is_discarded());
+            // valid UTF-8 (0xC0 0xAE is an overlong encoding of '.') round-trips
+            // byte for byte as a string value
+            const std::vector<uint8_t> ill_formed_value = {0x62, 0xc0, 0xae};
+            json j_value;
+            CHECK_NOTHROW(j_value = json::from_cbor(ill_formed_value));
+            REQUIRE(j_value.is_string());
+            CHECK(j_value.get_ref<const json::string_t&>() == std::string("\xc0\xae"));
+            // dump() still requires valid UTF-8 and throws for such a value,
+            // unless an error handler that replaces or ignores the bytes is
+            // passed
+            CHECK_THROWS_AS(j_value.dump(), json::type_error&);
+            // to_cbor() is strict as well, so the value cannot be written back
+            CHECK_THROWS_AS(json::to_cbor(j_value), json::type_error&);
+
+            // the same bytes as an object key round-trip as well
+            const std::vector<uint8_t> ill_formed_key = {0xa1, 0x62, 0xc0, 0xae, 0x01};
+            json j_key;
+            CHECK_NOTHROW(j_key = json::from_cbor(ill_formed_key));
+            REQUIRE(j_key.is_object());
+            CHECK(j_key.contains(std::string("\xc0\xae")));
+            CHECK_THROWS_AS(json::to_cbor(j_key), json::type_error&);
 
             // a CBOR byte string (major type 2) with the very same bytes is
             // NOT text and must still be accepted as-is
+            json _;
             CHECK_NOTHROW(_ = json::from_cbor(std::vector<uint8_t>({0x42, 0xc0, 0xae})));
             CHECK(_ == json::binary(std::vector<std::uint8_t>({0xc0, 0xae})));
 
@@ -1822,17 +1843,46 @@ TEST_CASE("CBOR")
             CHECK(json::from_cbor(json::to_cbor(j)) == j);
         }
 
-        SECTION("invalid UTF-8 in indefinite-length string")
+        SECTION("to_cbor rejects ill-formed UTF-8 (see #5651)")
+        {
+            // to_cbor() must reject the same ill-formed strings from_cbor()
+            // rejects, so a value it accepts can always be read back
+            CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(json::to_cbor(json("\xFF")), "[json.exception.type_error.316] invalid UTF-8 byte at index 0: 0xFF", json::type_error&);
+            // a truncated multi-byte sequence
+            CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(json::to_cbor(json("\xC3")), "[json.exception.type_error.316] invalid UTF-8 byte at index 0: 0xC3", json::type_error&);
+            // an encoded surrogate half (U+D800)
+            CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(json::to_cbor(json("\xED\xA0\x80")), "[json.exception.type_error.316] invalid UTF-8 byte at index 0: 0xED", json::type_error&);
+            // an overlong encoding of '.'
+            CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(json::to_cbor(json("\xC0\xAF")), "[json.exception.type_error.316] invalid UTF-8 byte at index 0: 0xC0", json::type_error&);
+
+            // an object key with ill-formed UTF-8 is rejected the same way
+            CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(json::to_cbor(json{{"\xFF", 1}}), "[json.exception.type_error.316] invalid UTF-8 byte at index 0: 0xFF", json::type_error&);
+
+            // binary values are not text and are unaffected
+            CHECK_NOTHROW(json::to_cbor(json::binary(std::vector<std::uint8_t>({0xFF}))));
+        }
+
+        SECTION("ill-formed UTF-8 in indefinite-length string")
         {
             json _;
 
-            // every chunk must be valid UTF-8 on its own (RFC 8949, Section
-            // 3.2.3), so a code point split across two chunks is rejected
-            CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(_ = json::from_cbor(std::vector<uint8_t>({0x7f, 0x61, 0xc3, 0x61, 0xa9, 0xff})), "[json.exception.parse_error.113] parse error at byte 3: syntax error while parsing CBOR string: invalid string: ill-formed UTF-8 byte", json::parse_error&);
-            CHECK(json::from_cbor(std::vector<uint8_t>({0x7f, 0x61, 0xc3, 0x61, 0xa9, 0xff}), true, false).is_discarded());
+            // the chunks are concatenated as is, without checking that each
+            // chunk is valid UTF-8 on its own (RFC 8949, Section 3.2.3), so
+            // a code point split across two chunks yields a valid string
+            CHECK_NOTHROW(_ = json::from_cbor(std::vector<uint8_t>({0x7f, 0x61, 0xc3, 0x61, 0xa9, 0xff})));
+            CHECK(_ == "\xc3\xa9");
+            CHECK(_.dump() == "\"\xc3\xa9\"");
 
-            // an ill-formed later chunk is rejected after valid ones
-            CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(_ = json::from_cbor(std::vector<uint8_t>({0x7f, 0x62, 0xc3, 0xa9, 0x62, 0xc0, 0xae, 0xff})), "[json.exception.parse_error.113] parse error at byte 7: syntax error while parsing CBOR string: invalid string: ill-formed UTF-8 byte", json::parse_error&);
+            // a truncated code point is kept as is
+            CHECK_NOTHROW(_ = json::from_cbor(std::vector<uint8_t>({0x7f, 0x61, 0xc3, 0xff})));
+            CHECK(_ == "\xc3");
+            CHECK_THROWS_AS(_.dump(), json::type_error&);
+            CHECK_THROWS_AS(json::to_cbor(_), json::type_error&);
+
+            // an ill-formed later chunk is kept after valid ones
+            CHECK_NOTHROW(_ = json::from_cbor(std::vector<uint8_t>({0x7f, 0x62, 0xc3, 0xa9, 0x62, 0xc0, 0xae, 0xff})));
+            CHECK(_ == "\xc3\xa9\xc0\xae");
+            CHECK_THROWS_AS(_.dump(), json::type_error&);
 
             // valid multi-byte chunks are accepted
             CHECK(json::from_cbor(std::vector<uint8_t>({0x7f, 0x62, 0xc3, 0xa9, 0x62, 0xc3, 0xb6, 0xff})) == "\xc3\xa9\xc3\xb6");
@@ -1840,9 +1890,6 @@ TEST_CASE("CBOR")
 
         SECTION("many chunks in indefinite-length string")
         {
-            // only the newly read chunk is validated, not the whole string
-            // collected so far; validating the latter made this input take
-            // quadratic time (about ten seconds for 100000 chunks)
             constexpr std::size_t chunks = 100000;
             std::vector<uint8_t> v{0x7f};
             for (std::size_t i = 0; i < chunks; ++i)

tests/src/unit-diagnostics-optimized.cpp

@@ -1,76 +0,0 @@
-//     __ _____ _____ _____
-//  __|  |   __|     |   | |  JSON for Modern C++ (supporting code)
-// |  |  |__   |  |  | | | |  version 3.12.0
-// |_____|_____|_____|_|___|  https://github.com/nlohmann/json
-//
-// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013-2026 Niels Lohmann <https://nlohmann.me>
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
-
-// Regression test for https://github.com/nlohmann/json/issues/5742: with
-// JSON_DIAGNOSTICS, GCC (13 to at least 15) reports a false -Warray-bounds
-// error in the inlined set_parents() at -O3. The warning depends on GCC's
-// inlining decisions, so the sections cover patterns that trigger it on
-// different GCC versions (#4819: GCC 13 and 14; #5742: GCC 14 and 15).
-// On GCC, this file is compiled with -O3 -Werror=array-bounds (see
-// tests/CMakeLists.txt), so the test fails to build if the warning returns.
-
-#include "doctest_compatibility.h"
-
-#ifdef JSON_DIAGNOSTICS
-    #undef JSON_DIAGNOSTICS
-#endif
-
-#define JSON_DIAGNOSTICS 1
-
-#include <nlohmann/json.hpp>
-using nlohmann::json;
-
-#include <algorithm>
-#include <iterator>
-#include <utility>
-#include <vector>
-
-namespace
-{
-enum class diag_color
-{
-    red,
-    green,
-    blue
-};
-
-void to_json(json& j, const diag_color& c)
-{
-    static const std::pair<diag_color, json> m[] = // NOLINT(cppcoreguidelines-avoid-c-arrays,hicpp-avoid-c-arrays,modernize-avoid-c-arrays)
-    {
-        {diag_color::red, "r"},
-        {diag_color::green, "g"},
-        {diag_color::blue, "b"},
-    };
-    const auto* it = std::find_if(std::begin(m), std::end(m), [c](const std::pair<diag_color, json>& p)
-    {
-        return p.first == c;
-    });
-    j = it->second;
-}
-} // namespace
-
-TEST_CASE("diagnostics with optimization")
-{
-    SECTION("issue #4819 - object in vector")
-    {
-        std::vector<json> jsons{};
-        jsons.emplace_back(json({{"key", "value"}}));
-        CHECK(jsons.back()["key"] == "value");
-    }
-
-    SECTION("issue #5742 - string values from a static table")
-    {
-        json j = json::array();
-        j.push_back(diag_color::red);
-        j.push_back(diag_color::green);
-        j.push_back(diag_color::blue);
-        CHECK(j.dump() == R"(["r","g","b"])");
-        CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(j[1].get<int>(), "[json.exception.type_error.302] (/1) type must be number, but is string", json::type_error);
-    }
-}

tests/src/unit-msgpack.cpp

@@ -1540,19 +1540,39 @@ TEST_CASE("MessagePack")
             CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(_ = json::from_msgpack(std::vector<uint8_t>({0x81})), "[json.exception.parse_error.110] parse error at byte 2: syntax error while parsing MessagePack string: unexpected end of input", json::parse_error&);
         }
 
-        SECTION("invalid UTF-8 in string (see #5529)")
+        SECTION("ill-formed UTF-8 in string (see #5529, #5651)")
         {
+            // the MessagePack specification explicitly allows a str object to
+            // contain a byte sequence that is not valid UTF-8 and expects a
+            // deserializer to hand the original bytes back unchanged; this
+            // library follows that, unlike CBOR/UBJSON/BJData/BSON, whose
+            // specifications require text strings to be valid UTF-8
+
             // a fixstr of length 2 (0xA0 | 2) whose bytes are not valid UTF-8
-            // (0xC0 0xAE is an overlong encoding of '.') must be rejected at
-            // decode time, matching every other kind of malformed binary
-            // input, rather than only failing later when the resulting
-            // value is dumped
-            json _;
-            CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(_ = json::from_msgpack(std::vector<uint8_t>({0xa2, 0xc0, 0xae})), "[json.exception.parse_error.113] parse error at byte 3: syntax error while parsing MessagePack string: invalid string: ill-formed UTF-8 byte", json::parse_error&);
-            CHECK(json::from_msgpack(std::vector<uint8_t>({0xa2, 0xc0, 0xae}), true, false).is_discarded());
+            // (0xC0 0xAE is an overlong encoding of '.') round-trips byte for
+            // byte as a string value
+            const std::vector<uint8_t> ill_formed_value = {0xa2, 0xc0, 0xae};
+            json j_value;
+            CHECK_NOTHROW(j_value = json::from_msgpack(ill_formed_value));
+            REQUIRE(j_value.is_string());
+            CHECK(j_value.get_ref<const json::string_t&>() == std::string("\xc0\xae"));
+            CHECK(json::from_msgpack(json::to_msgpack(j_value)) == j_value);
+            // dump() still requires valid UTF-8 and throws for such a value,
+            // unless an error handler that replaces or ignores the bytes is
+            // passed
+            CHECK_THROWS_AS(j_value.dump(), json::type_error&);
+
+            // the same bytes as an object key round-trip as well
+            const std::vector<uint8_t> ill_formed_key = {0x81, 0xa2, 0xc0, 0xae, 0x01};
+            json j_key;
+            CHECK_NOTHROW(j_key = json::from_msgpack(ill_formed_key));
+            REQUIRE(j_key.is_object());
+            CHECK(j_key.contains(std::string("\xc0\xae")));
+            CHECK(json::from_msgpack(json::to_msgpack(j_key)) == j_key);
 
             // a MessagePack bin8 blob with the very same bytes is NOT text
             // and must still be accepted as-is
+            json _;
             CHECK_NOTHROW(_ = json::from_msgpack(std::vector<uint8_t>({0xc4, 0x02, 0xc0, 0xae})));
             CHECK(_ == json::binary(std::vector<std::uint8_t>({0xc0, 0xae})));
 

tests/src/unit-ubjson.cpp

@@ -2505,6 +2505,41 @@ TEST_CASE("Universal Binary JSON Specification Examples 1")
             CHECK(json::to_ubjson(j) == v);
             CHECK(json::from_ubjson(v) == j);
         }
+
+        SECTION("ill-formed UTF-8 (see #5529, #5651)")
+        {
+            // none of the binary format specs requires a decoder to reject
+            // ill-formed UTF-8 in a text string, so a value whose bytes are
+            // not valid UTF-8 (0xC0 0xAE is an overlong encoding of '.')
+            // round-trips byte for byte as a string value; to_ubjson() is
+            // strict, so such a value cannot be written back
+            const std::vector<uint8_t> v = {'S', 'i', 2, 0xc0, 0xae};
+            json j;
+            CHECK_NOTHROW(j = json::from_ubjson(v));
+            REQUIRE(j.is_string());
+            CHECK(j.get_ref<const json::string_t&>() == std::string("\xc0\xae"));
+            CHECK_THROWS_AS(j.dump(), json::type_error&);
+            CHECK_THROWS_AS(json::to_ubjson(j), json::type_error&);
+
+            // the same bytes as an object key round-trip as well
+            const std::vector<uint8_t> v_key = {'{', 'i', 2, 0xc0, 0xae, 'i', 1, '}'};
+            json j_key;
+            CHECK_NOTHROW(j_key = json::from_ubjson(v_key));
+            REQUIRE(j_key.is_object());
+            CHECK(j_key.contains(std::string("\xc0\xae")));
+            CHECK_THROWS_AS(json::to_ubjson(j_key), json::type_error&);
+
+            CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(json::to_ubjson(json("\xFF")), "[json.exception.type_error.316] invalid UTF-8 byte at index 0: 0xFF", json::type_error&);
+            // a truncated multi-byte sequence
+            CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(json::to_ubjson(json("\xC3")), "[json.exception.type_error.316] invalid UTF-8 byte at index 0: 0xC3", json::type_error&);
+            // an encoded surrogate half (U+D800)
+            CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(json::to_ubjson(json("\xED\xA0\x80")), "[json.exception.type_error.316] invalid UTF-8 byte at index 0: 0xED", json::type_error&);
+            // an overlong encoding of '.'
+            CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(json::to_ubjson(json("\xC0\xAF")), "[json.exception.type_error.316] invalid UTF-8 byte at index 0: 0xC0", json::type_error&);
+
+            // an object key with ill-formed UTF-8 is rejected the same way
+            CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(json::to_ubjson(json{{"\xFF", 1}}), "[json.exception.type_error.316] invalid UTF-8 byte at index 0: 0xFF", json::type_error&);
+        }
     }
 
     SECTION("Array Type")