CVE-2025-48060
AddressSanitizer: stack-buffer-overflow in jq_fuzz_execute (jv_string_vfmt)
- Published
- May 21, 2025
- Updated
- Nov 3, 2025
- Assigning CNA
- GitHub_M
- Evidence observed
- Aug 6, 2026
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:XLow · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 43.8%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
jq is a command-line JSON processor. In versions up to and including 1.7.1, a heap-buffer-overflow is present in function `jv_string_vfmt` in the jq_fuzz_execute harness from oss-fuzz. This crash happens on file jv.c, line 1456 `void* p = malloc(sz);`. As of time of publication, no patched versions are available.
Sources
1Backported the upstream fix for CVE-2025-48060 (heap buffer overflow in jv_string_empty) to jq 1.6.
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