CVE-2025-48060

Publication date 21 May 2025

Last updated 23 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
jq	25.10 questing	Fixed 1.8.1-3ubuntu1
	25.04 plucky	Fixed 1.7.1-3ubuntu1.1
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was needed
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 1.7.1-3ubuntu0.24.04.1
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 1.6-2.1ubuntu3.1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1.6-1ubuntu0.20.04.1+esm1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1.5+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1.5+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1+esm3
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

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Patch details

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Package	Patch details
jq	Upstream: dc849e9 Upstream: c6e0416

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H