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OESA-2026-2780 (CVE-2025-9403)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2026-06-24 11:11 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:11 – Source website

Summary

jq security update

Details

jq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor. you can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data. It is written in portable C, and it has zero runtime dependencies. it can mangle the data format that you have into the one that you want.

Security Fix(es):

A vulnerability was determined in jqlang jq up to 1.6. Impacted is the function run_jq_tests of the file jq_test.c of the component JSON Parser. Executing manipulation can lead to reachable assertion. The attack requires local access. The exploit has been publicly disclosed and may be utilized. Other versions might be affected as well.(CVE-2025-9403)

Severity

3.3 (Low)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/zh/security/security-bu…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-9403	ADVISORY

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CVE-2025-9403 (GCVE-0-2025-9403)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-25 02:02 – Updated: 2025-08-25 16:48

Title

jqlang jq JSON jq_test.c run_jq_tests assertion

Summary

Severity

4.8 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P

3.3 (Low)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:R

3.3 (Low)


                        
                          CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:R

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-08-25 16:48 UTC

CWE

CWE-617 - Reachable Assertion

Assigner

VulDB mitre root

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://vuldb.com/?id.321239	vdb-entrytechnical-description
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.321239	signaturepermissions-required
https://vuldb.com/?submit.633170	third-party-advisory
https://github.com/jqlang/jq/issues/3393	issue-tracking
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r8m9PhU_rk-QPj6O…	exploit

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
jqlang	jq	Affected: 1.0 Affected: 1.1 Affected: 1.2 Affected: 1.3 Affected: 1.4 Affected: 1.5 Affected: 1.6

Credits

xdcao (VulDB User)

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