The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8202-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that jq did not correctly handle certain string concatenations. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue was addressed     in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu     25.10. (CVE-2026-32316)

    It was discovered that jq did not correctly handle recursion in certain circumstances. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2026-33947)

    It was discovered that jq did not correctly handle improperly terminated strings. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue was addressed     in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu     25.10. (CVE-2026-33948)

    It was discovered that jq did not correctly handle checking certain variable types. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or leak sensitive information. This issue was     addressed in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and     Ubuntu 25.10. (CVE-2026-39956)

    It was discovered that jq did not correctly handle certain string formatting. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to leak sensitive information or cause a denial of service. (CVE-2026-39979)

    It was discovered that jq used a fixed seed for hash table operations. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to cause a denial of service. This issue was addressed in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu     20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 25.10. (CVE-2026-40164)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.10 : jq vulnerabilities (USN-8202-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 310123

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.2 Apr 24, 2026, 9:18 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202604242118
Version 1.1 Apr 24, 2026, 4:28 PM New Plugin Feed: 202604241628