CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-41257

6.4 MEDIUM Published 2026-05-11 Modified 2026-10-26 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-05-11
Last modified
2026-10-26
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
6.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-190, CWE-787

Description

jq is a command-line JSON processor. In 1.8.1 and earlier, the jq bytecode VM's data stack tracks its allocation size in a signed int. When the stack grows beyond ≈1 GiB (via deeply nested generator forks), the doubling arithmetic overflows. The wrapped value is passed to realloc and then used for a memmove with attacker-influenced offsets.

Affected configurations

• jqlang jq (<= 1.8.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness
  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References