diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
index 86048e791c..001b41ffb9 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
@@ -298,6 +298,7 @@ RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-iputils = "Unassigned <unassigned@yoctoproject.org>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-iso-codes = "Wang Mingyu <wangmy@cn.fujitsu.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-itstool = "Unassigned <unassigned@yoctoproject.org>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-iw = "Unassigned <unassigned@yoctoproject.org>"
+RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-jansson = "Unassigned <unassigned@yoctoproject.org>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-json-c = "Yi Zhao <yi.zhao@windriver.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-json-glib = "Yi Zhao <yi.zhao@windriver.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-kbd = "Unassigned <unassigned@yoctoproject.org>"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/jansson/jansson_2.15.0.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/jansson/jansson_2.15.0.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fda7a54ed8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/jansson/jansson_2.15.0.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+SUMMARY = "Jansson is a C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://www.digip.org/jansson/"
+BUGTRACKER = "https://github.com/akheron/jansson/issues"
+LICENSE = "MIT & dtoa"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=d9911525d4128bee234ee2d3ccaa2537"
+
+GITHUB_BASE_URI = "https://github.com/akheron/jansson/releases"
+SRC_URI = "${GITHUB_BASE_URI}/download/v${PV}/${BP}.tar.gz"
+
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "070a629590723228dc3b744ae90e965a569efb9c535b3309b52e80e75d8eb3be"
+
+inherit autotools pkgconfig github-releases
+
+CVE_STATUS[CVE-2020-36325] = "disputed: upstream considers it isn't a real bug per https://github.com/akheron/jansson/issues/548"
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"