CVE-2025-48060: Jqlang Jq

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

jq is a command-line JSON processor. In versions up to and including 1.7.1, a heap-buffer-overflow is present in function `jv_string_vfmt` in the jq_fuzz_execute harness from oss-fuzz. This crash happens on file jv.c, line 1456 `void* p = malloc(sz);`. As of time of publication, no patched versions are available.

Affected products

• Jqlang Jq: up to and including 1.7.1

Published 2025-05-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.