CVE detail
CVE-2026-40612
jq is a command-line JSON processor. In 1.8.1 and earlier, jv_contains recurses into nested arrays/objects with no depth limit. With a sufficiently nested input structure (built programmatically with reduce, since the JSON parser caps at depth 10000), the C stack is exhausted.
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Buzz score components · mention 11.0 · diversity 10.0 · KEV 0.0 · OTX 0.0 · PoC 0.0
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vendormsrc.microsoft.comMay 13, 2026, 8:01 AMNo excerpt available.
Exploitgithub.comMay 11, 2026, 6:16 PM
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