CVE-2023-50268mediumCWE-120CWE-121

CVE-2023-50268: medium-severity vulnerability in jqlang jq

jq has stack-based buffer overflow in decNaNs

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13Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 6.2epss 0.4%
jq is a command-line JSON processor. Version 1.7 is vulnerable to stack-based buffer overflow in builds using decNumber. Version 1.7.1 contains a patch for this issue.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
jqlang · jq
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