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CVE-2026-40612

jq: Stack overflow via unbounded recursion in jv_contains

CVSS 5.4 MEDIUMEPSS 0.2%CWE-674
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.
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
Affected products
jqlang · jq

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