CVE-2015-8863

critical

Published 2016-05-06 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

9.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.8

Description

Off-by-one error in the tokenadd function in jv_parse.c in jq allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long JSON-encoded number, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

97%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
42.1	Affected	—
13.2	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1.5+dfsg-1.1`
sid	Fixed	`1.5+dfsg-1.1`
forky	Fixed	`1.5+dfsg-1.1`
bullseye	Fixed	`1.5+dfsg-1.1`
bookworm	Fixed	`1.5+dfsg-1.1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
jq_project	jq	`{"endIncluding":"1.5"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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