Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting stedolan/jq package, versions [,1.8.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-STEDOLANJQ-17660932
  • published28 Jun 2026
  • disclosed25 Jun 2026
  • creditfuyu0425

Introduced: 25 Jun 2026

CVE-2026-47770  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade stedolan/jq to version 1.8.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Recursion in the jv_equal process. An attacker can cause the application to crash by supplying deeply nested JSON arrays to the equality comparison operator, leading to stack exhaustion through uncontrolled recursion.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1