CVE-2026-43895

jq is a command-line JSON processor. In 1.8.1 and earlier, jq accepts embedded NUL bytes in import paths at the jq-language level, but later resolves those paths through C string operations during module and data-file lookup. This creates a mismatch between the logical import string that policy or audit code may validate and the on-disk path that jq actually opens.

Database specific

{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-158",
        "CWE-20"
    ],
    "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/43xxx/CVE-2026-43895.json"
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/jqlang/jq

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/jqlang/jq

Events

Introduced

Last affected

4467af7068b1bcd7f882defff6e7ea674c5357f4

Database specific

{
    "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.8.1"
        }
    ]
}

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/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-43895.json"