CVE-2026-44777: medium-severity vulnerability in jqlang jq
jq: stack overflow in module loading on mutual `include`
Published
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.4epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 96% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
jq is a command-line JSON processor. In 1.8.2rc1 and earlier, the ordinary module loader recurses without cycle detection when two
otherwise valid modules include each other.
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 · jqRelated CVEs — jqlang jq
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2026-39979MEDIUMjq: Out-of-Bounds Read in jv_parse_sized() Error Formatting for Non-NUL-Terminated Counted BuffersEPSS 0.8%CVE-2026-40164HIGHjq: Algorithmic complexity DoS via hardcoded MurmurHash3 seedEPSS 0.6%CVE-2025-48060HIGHAddressSanitizer: stack-buffer-overflow in jq_fuzz_execute (jv_string_vfmt)EPSS 0.5%CVE-2023-50246MEDIUMjq has heap-buffer-overflow vulnerability in the function decToString in decNumber.cEPSS 0.5%CVE-2026-32316HIGHjq: Integer overflow in jvp_string_append() allows Heap-based Buffer OverflowEPSS 0.5%CVE-2024-23337MEDIUMjq has signed integer overflow in jv.c:jvp_array_writeEPSS 0.4%