CVE-2026-43896

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43896
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-43896.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-43896
Aliases
  • GHSA-mg96-6h3q-g846
Downstream
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RHSA (1)
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UBUNTU (1)
Related
openSUSE (2)
SUSE (4)
Published
2026-05-11T17:24:48Z
Modified
2026-09-21T17:26:47Z
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: Stack Overflow in Recursive Object Merge
Details

jq is a command-line JSON processor. In 1.8.1 and earlier, unbounded recursion in jv_object_merge_recursive() allows a crafted jq program to crash the process with a segfault. The function is reachable through the * operator when both operands are objects.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner":  "GitHub_M",
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-674"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/43xxx/CVE-2026-43896.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
Last Affected
4467af7068b1bcd7f882defff6e7ea674c5357f4
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:jqlang:jq:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "introduced":  "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected":  "1.8.1"
        }
    ],
    "source":  [
        "AFFECTED_FIELD",
        "CPE_RANGE"
    ]
}

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-1.7.1
jq-1.7rc1
jq-1.7rc2
jq-1.8.0
jq-1.8.1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-43896.json"