CVE-2023-50246 (GCVE-0-2023-50246)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-12-13 20:43
Modified
2025-02-13 17:19
Severity ?
6.2 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow
  • CWE-120 - Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
Summary
jq is a command-line JSON processor. Version 1.7 is vulnerable to heap-based buffer overflow. Version 1.7.1 contains a patch for this issue.
References
Impacted products
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jqlang jq Version: = 1.7
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