CVE-2025-48060

medium

Published 2025-07-08 · Modified 2025-07-08

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

jq is a command-line JSON processor. In versions up to and including 1.7.1, a heap-buffer-overflow is present in function `jv_string_vfmt` in the jq_fuzz_execute harness from oss-fuzz. This crash happens on file jv.c, line 1456 `void* p = malloc(sz);`. As of time of publication, no patched versions are available.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
rhel	9	fixed
rocky	8	fixed
debian	bookworm	fixed	`1.6-2.1+deb12u1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`1.6-2.1+deb11u1`
debian	forky	fixed	`1.8.0-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`1.8.0-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`1.7.1-6+deb13u1`
sles		affected
rocky	9	fixed
rhel	8	fixed

References

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