Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published May 11, 2026· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2026-40612
CVE-2026-40612
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.
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References
1- github.com/jqlang/jq/security/advisories/GHSA-r7m6-x9c7-h69jnvdExploitMitigationVendor Advisory
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