CVE-2023-50268
mediumpriority · track · 22EPSS 0.004 · 38 %ileEUFRRUUSgrimoire priorityP3 · Track
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
0.44% (38th) EPSS
CVSS 5.5 · medium
Who says so?
5 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · nvd
EPSS · scored 2026-10-27
jq is a command-line JSON processor. Version 1.7 is vulnerable to stack-based buffer overflow in builds using decNumber. Version 1.7.1 contains a patch for this issue.
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cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
6.2
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
v3.15.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.8 · impact 3.6
v3.16.2mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · security-advisories@github.comexploitability 2.5 · impact 3.6
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weaknesses
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affected products (4)
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advisories (1)
Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-1385Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMwareFrançais2026-10-26vendor · certfrFR
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also known as (3)
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sources
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references (15)
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=64771cnnvd
- https://cxsecurity.com/cveshow/CVE-2023-50268/cnnvd
- https://github.com/jqlang/jq/commit/c9a51565214eece8f1053089739aea73145bfd6bcnnvd
- https://github.com/jqlang/jq/pull/2804cnnvd
- https://github.com/jqlang/jq/security/advisories/GHSA-7hmr-442f-qc8jcnnvd
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/15/10enisa_euvd
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=64771enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/jqlang/jq/commit/c9a51565214eece8f1053089739aea73145bfd6benisa_euvd
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