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CVE-2026-40612 (GCVE-0-2026-40612)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-11 17:16 – Updated: 2026-05-11 18:23
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Title
jq: Stack overflow via unbounded recursion in jv_contains
Summary
jq is a command-line JSON processor. In 1.8.1 and earlier, jv_contains recurses into nested arrays/objects with no depth limit. With a sufficiently nested input structure (built programmatically with reduce, since the JSON parser caps at depth 10000), the C stack is exhausted.
Severity
5.4 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-05-11 18:23 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
jqlang jq Affected: <= 1.8.1
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