CVE-2023-50268: Jqlang Jq

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Jqlang Jq: version 1.7 only

Published 2023-12-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.