CVE-2023-50246

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

Publication date:

13/12/2023

Last modified:

25/04/2025

Description

jq is a command-line JSON processor. Version 1.7 is vulnerable to heap-based buffer overflow. Version 1.7.1 contains a patch for this issue.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.20 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

6.20

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:jqlang:jq:1.7:-::::::
cpe:2.3:a:jqlang:jq:1.7:rc1::::::
cpe:2.3:a:jqlang:jq:1.7:rc2::::::

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CVE-2023-50246

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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