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CVE-2023-49355

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-12-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

decToString in decNumber/decNumber.c in jq 88f01a7 has a one-byte out-of-bounds write via the " []-1.2e-1111111111" input. NOTE: this is not the same as CVE-2023-50246. The CVE-2023-50246 71c2ab5 reference mentions -10E-1000010001, which is not in normalized scientific notation.

Affected products

• jqlang jq: 1.7-37-g88f01a7

References

• https://github.com/jqlang/jq/blob/88f01a741c8d63c4d1b5bc3ef61520c6eb93edaa/src/decNumber/decNumber.c#L3764
• https://github.com/jqlang/jq/tree/88f01a741c8d63c4d1b5bc3ef61520c6eb93edaa
• https://github.com/linzc21/bug-reports/blob/main/reports/jq/1.7-37-g88f01a7/heap-buffer-overflow/CVE-2023-49355.md
• https://github.com/jqlang/jq/blob/88f01a741c8d63c4d1b5bc3ef61520c6eb93edaa/src/decNumber/decNumber.c#L3764
• https://github.com/jqlang/jq/tree/88f01a741c8d63c4d1b5bc3ef61520c6eb93edaa
• https://github.com/linzc21/bug-reports/blob/main/reports/jq/1.7-37-g88f01a7/heap-buffer-overflow/CVE-2023-49355.md

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