CVE-2023-50246

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-50246
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-50246.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-50246
Aliases
  • GHSA-686w-5m7m-54vc
Downstream
Related
Published
2023-12-13T20:43:50.862Z
Modified
2025-11-29T15:06:06.985291Z
Severity
  • 6.2 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
jq has heap-buffer-overflow vulnerability in the function decToString in decNumber.c
Details

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.

Database specific 
{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-120",
        "CWE-122"
    ],
    "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/50xxx/CVE-2023-50246.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/jqlang/jq

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/jqlang/jq
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
71c2ab509a8628dbbad4bc7b3f98a64aa90d3297

Affected versions

1.*

1.6rc2

jq-1.*

jq-1.0
jq-1.1
jq-1.2
jq-1.3
jq-1.4
jq-1.5rc1
jq-1.5rc2
jq-1.6
jq-1.6rc1
jq-1.7
jq-1.7rc1
jq-1.7rc2

Database specific

vanir_signatures

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            ],
            "threshold": 0.9
        },
        "target": {
            "file": "src/jv.c"
        },
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "id": "CVE-2023-50246-3a1c0ce4"
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        "signature_version": "v1",
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            "length": 464.0
        },
        "target": {
            "file": "src/jv.c",
            "function": "jvp_literal_number_literal"
        },
        "signature_type": "Function",
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