Upstream information
Description
jq is a command-line JSON processor. An integer overflow vulnerability exists through version 1.8.1 within the jvp_string_append() and jvp_string_copy_replace_bad functions, where concatenating strings with a combined length exceeding 2^31 bytes causes a 32-bit unsigned integer overflow in the buffer allocation size calculation, resulting in a drastically undersized heap buffer. Subsequent memory copy operations then write the full string data into this undersized buffer, causing a heap buffer overflow classified as CWE-190 (Integer Overflow) leading to CWE-122 (Heap-based Buffer Overflow). Any system evaluating untrusted jq queries is affected, as an attacker can crash the process or potentially achieve further exploitation through heap corruption by crafting queries that produce extremely large strings. The root cause is the absence of string size bounds checking, unlike arrays and objects which already have size limits. The issue has been addressed in commit e47e56d226519635768e6aab2f38f0ab037c09e5.SUSE information
Overall state of this security issue: Pending
This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.
| CVSS detail | CNA (GitHub) | SUSE |
|---|---|---|
| Base Score | 8.2 | 6.8 |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H |
| Attack Vector | Network | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low | Low |
| Privileges Required | None | Low |
| User Interaction | None | Required |
| Scope | Unchanged | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality Impact | None | Low |
| Integrity Impact | Low | Low |
| Availability Impact | High | High |
| CVSSv3 Version | 3.1 | 3.1 |
Status of this issue by product and package
Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.
| Product(s) | Source package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Products under general support and receiving all security fixes. | ||
| SLES15-SP5-CHOST-BYOS-SAP-CCloud | jq | Affected |
| SLES15-SP6-CHOST-BYOS | jq | Affected |
| SLES15-SP6-CHOST-BYOS-Aliyun | jq | Affected |
| SLES15-SP6-CHOST-BYOS-Azure | jq | Affected |
| SLES15-SP6-CHOST-BYOS-EC2 | jq | Affected |
| SLES15-SP6-CHOST-BYOS-GCE | jq | Affected |
| SLES15-SP6-CHOST-BYOS-GDC | jq | Affected |
| SLES15-SP6-CHOST-BYOS-SAP-CCloud | jq | Affected |
| SLES15-SP7-CHOST-BYOS-Aliyun | jq | Affected |
| SLES15-SP7-CHOST-BYOS-Azure | jq | Affected |
| SLES15-SP7-CHOST-BYOS-EC2 | jq | Affected |
| SLES15-SP7-CHOST-BYOS-GCE | jq | Affected |
| SLES15-SP7-CHOST-BYOS-GDC | jq | Affected |
| SLES15-SP7-CHOST-BYOS-SAP-CCloud | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP7 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.1 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.0 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.1 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Micro 6.0 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Micro 6.1 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Micro 6.2 | jq | Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 15.6 | jq | Affected |
| Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes. | ||
| SLES15-SP3-CHOST-BYOS-Aliyun | jq | Affected |
| SLES15-SP3-CHOST-BYOS-Azure | jq | Affected |
| SLES15-SP3-CHOST-BYOS-EC2 | jq | Affected |
| SLES15-SP3-CHOST-BYOS-GCE | jq | Affected |
| SLES15-SP3-CHOST-BYOS-SAP-CCloud | jq | Affected |
| SLES15-SP4-CHOST-BYOS | jq | Affected |
| SLES15-SP4-CHOST-BYOS-Aliyun | jq | Affected |
| SLES15-SP4-CHOST-BYOS-Azure | jq | Affected |
| SLES15-SP4-CHOST-BYOS-EC2 | jq | Affected |
| SLES15-SP4-CHOST-BYOS-GCE | jq | Affected |
| SLES15-SP4-CHOST-BYOS-SAP-CCloud | jq | Affected |
| SLES15-SP5-CHOST-BYOS-Aliyun | jq | Affected |
| SLES15-SP5-CHOST-BYOS-Azure | jq | Affected |
| SLES15-SP5-CHOST-BYOS-EC2 | jq | Affected |
| SLES15-SP5-CHOST-BYOS-GCE | jq | Affected |
| SLES15-SP5-CHOST-BYOS-GDC | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5-LTSS | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP4 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP5 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP6 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4-LTSS | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5-LTSS | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6-LTSS | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Manager Proxy LTS 4.3 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server LTS 4.3 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Manager Server 4.3 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Manager Server LTS 4.3 | jq | Affected |
| Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore. | ||
| SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Enterprise Storage 7 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP1 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP2 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP3 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP4 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP5 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-ESPOS | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-LTSS | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-ESPOS | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-LTSS | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-ESPOS | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-ESPOS | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5-ESPOS | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP6 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP2 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP3 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP2 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP3 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP4 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-BCL | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-LTSS | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-BCL | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-LTSS | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-BCL | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-LTSS | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Manager Proxy 4.1 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Manager Proxy 4.2 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.0 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.1 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.2 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Manager Server 4.0 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Manager Server 4.1 | jq | Affected |
| SUSE Manager Server 4.2 | jq | Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 15.3 | jq | Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 15.4 | jq | Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 15.5 | jq | Affected |
| openSUSE Leap Micro 5.2 | jq | Affected |
| openSUSE Leap Micro 5.3 | jq | Affected |
| openSUSE Leap Micro 5.4 | jq | Affected |
| openSUSE Leap Micro 5.5 | jq | Affected |
| Products at an unknown state of their lifecycle. | ||
| SLES-CHOST-BYOS-Aliyun | jq | Affected |
| SLES-CHOST-BYOS-Azure | jq | Affected |
| SLES-CHOST-BYOS-EC2 | jq | Affected |
| SLES-CHOST-BYOS-GCE | jq | Affected |
| SLES-CHOST-BYOS-GDC | jq | Affected |
| SLES-CHOST-BYOS-SAP-CCloud | jq | Affected |
| Container Status | ||
| containers/suse-ai-observability-extension-setup:1 rancher/elemental-channel rancher/elemental-rt-channel suse/hpc/warewulf4-x86_64/sle-hpc-node suse/sle-micro-rancher/5.2 suse/sle-micro-rancher/5.3 suse/sle-micro-rancher/5.4 suse/sle-micro/5.5 suse/sles/15.3/virt-launcher:0.45.0 | jq | Affected |
SUSE Timeline for this CVE
CVE page created: Mon Apr 13 22:35:10 2026CVE page last modified: Tue Apr 14 13:56:34 2026