CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-41256
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-05-11
- Last modified
- 2026-10-26
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-158
Description
jq is a command-line JSON processor. In 1.8.1 and earlier, Top-level jq programs loaded from a file with -f are truncated at the first embedded NUL byte on current upstream HEAD. A crafted filter file such as . followed by \x00 and arbitrary suffix compiles and executes as only the prefix before the NUL. This leaves jq with a post-CVE-2026-33948 prefix/full-buffer mismatch on the compilation path even though the JSON parser path has already been fixed.
Affected configurations
• jqlang jq (<= 1.8.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-158 Improper Neutralization of Null Byte or NUL Character weakness
References
- https://github.com/jqlang/jq/security/advisories/GHSA-vf2h-chrj-q3fg Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/jqlang/jq/security/advisories/GHSA-vf2h-chrj-q3fg Exploit, Vendor Advisory