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CVE-2026-40612

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.5 Published: 2026-05-11 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Jqlang Jq

Weakness Type

CWE-674

References