TI-2024-35799 Aliases CVE-2024-53427 GHSA-8mxc-vqrq-gcm8

Type confusion in jqlang jq

HIGH 70CWE-843Published 2025-02-26 · Updated 2025-03-28

Key facts

Attack vector: Local
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: High
Impact type: Code execution
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: High · High · High
Fix status: Deferred Red Hat: fix deferred

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-843 and the CVSS impact.

Summary

decNumberCopy in decNumber.c in jq through 1.7.1 does not properly consider that NaN is interpreted as numeric, which has a resultant stack-based buffer overflow and out-of-bounds write, as demonstrated by use of --slurp with subtraction, such as a filter of .-. when the input has a certain form of digit string with NaN (e.g., "1 NaN123" immediately followed by many more digits).

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00391 33rd percentileScored 2026-11-07

Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by NVD

Fix Deferred Red Hat: fix deferred

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: Poc
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
jqlang	jq	up to 1.7.1	—	No fix listed	CNA

jq Vendorjqlang Affected up to 1.7.1 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:jqlang:jq::::::::	up to 1.7.1	Vulnerable	jqlang

cpe:2.3:a:jqlang:jq:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions up to 1.7.1 Vulnerable ·jqlang

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Product	Status	Plan or fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10	Affected	No fix yet: Fix deferred

Not affected: 4 products

Red Hat Ceph Storage 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-53427
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-8mxc-vqrq-gcm8

References

Exploit 1

https://github.com/jqlang/jq/issues/3196

Advisory 3

Other 1

https://github.com/jqlang/jq/blob/71c2ab509a8628dbbad4bc7b3f98a64aa90d3297/src/decNumber/decNumber.c#L3375

TI-2026-24844 jq: Integer overflow in jvp_string_append() allows Heap-based Buffer Overflow CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.2
TI-2025-30431 AddressSanitizer: stack-buffer-overflow in jq_fuzz_execute (jv_string_vfmt) CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.7
TI-2023-26962 decToString in decNumber/decNumber.c in jq 88f01a7 has a one-byte out-of-bounds write via… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
TI-2026-28834 jq: Out-of-Bounds Read in jv_parse_sized() Error Formatting for Non-NUL-Terminated Counted Buffers CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.9
TI-2026-36743 jq --rawfile invalid-state reuse after String too long causes heap-buffer-overflow CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1
TI-2024-15439 jq has signed integer overflow in jv.c:jvp_array_write CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5

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Sources

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