CVE-2016-4074

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2016-05-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-770

Description

The jv_dump_term function in jq 1.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) via a crafted JSON file. This issue has been fixed in jq 1.6_rc1-r0.

Affected products

Jq Project Jq: through 1.5

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/24/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/24/4
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/18908
https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10263
https://github.com/stedolan/jq/
https://github.com/stedolan/jq/issues/1136
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/24/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/24/4
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/18908
https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10263
https://github.com/stedolan/jq/
https://github.com/stedolan/jq/issues/1136

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