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CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Description
jq is a command-line JSON processor. In 1.8.1 and earlier, Top-level jq programs loaded from a file with -f are truncated at the first embedded NUL byte on current upstream HEAD. A crafted filter file such as . followed by \x00 and arbitrary suffix compiles and executes as only the prefix before the NUL. This leaves jq with a post-CVE-2026-33948 prefix/full-buffer mismatch on the compilation path even though the JSON parser path has already been fixed.
Basic Information
ID
CVE-2026-41256
Source
GitHub_M
Published
May 11, 2026 at 17:18
Affected Product
Vendor
jqlang
Product
jq
Version
<= 1.8.1
Affected Versions
jqlang jq <= 1.8.1