CVE-2026-43896

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

Last Affected

4467af7068b1bcd7f882defff6e7ea674c5357f4

Database specific

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{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "1.8.1"
                }
            ],
            "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
            "strategy": "StringRangeExpression"
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:jqlang:jq:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "1.8.1"
                }
            ],
            "source": "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/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-43896.json"