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6.1 MEDIUM
  • CVSS version: 3.1
  • Attack vector (AV): LOCAL
  • Attack complexity (AC): LOW
  • Privileges required (PR): NONE
  • User interaction (UI): REQUIRED
  • Scope (S): UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality impact (C): LOW
  • Integrity impact (I): NONE
  • Availability impact (A): HIGH
created 21 hours ago
jq: Missing runtime type checks for _strindices lead to crash and limited memory disclosure

jq is a command-line JSON processor. In commits after 69785bf77f86e2ea1b4a20ca86775916889e91c9, the _strindices builtin in jq's src/builtin.c passes its arguments directly to jv_string_indexes() without verifying they are strings, and jv_string_indexes() in src/jv.c relies solely on assert() checks that are stripped in release builds compiled with -DNDEBUG. This allows an attacker to crash jq trivially with input like _strindices(0), and by crafting a numeric value whose IEEE-754 bit pattern maps to a chosen pointer, achieve a controlled pointer dereference and limited memory read/probe primitive. Any deployment that evaluates untrusted jq filters against a release build is vulnerable. This issue has been patched in commit fdf8ef0f0810e3d365cdd5160de43db46f57ed03.

Affected products

jq
  • ==>= 69785bf77f86e2ea1b4a20ca86775916889e91c9, < fdf8ef0f0810e3d365cdd5160de43db46f57ed03

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