CVE-2026-43895

medium

Description

jq is a command-line JSON processor. In 1.8.1 and earlier, jq accepts embedded NUL bytes in import paths at the jq-language level, but later resolves those paths through C string operations during module and data-file lookup. This creates a mismatch between the logical import string that policy or audit code may validate and the on-disk path that jq actually opens.

References

https://github.com/jqlang/jq/security/advisories/GHSA-7q7g-mrq3-phxr

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-05-11

Updated: 2026-05-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00017