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CVE-2015-8863
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…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 7.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 5.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By debian
- 13 days later
· 13 days later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 7.3% · top 5.6% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
11
- RHSA-2016:1106 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:1099 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160423 Re: CVE Request: jq: heap buffer overflow in tokenadd() function (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:1212 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:1098 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=802231 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/stedolan/jq/commit/8eb1367ca44e772963e704a700ef72ae2e12babd (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/stedolan/jq/issues/995 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160423 CVE Request: jq: heap buffer overflow in tokenadd() function (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:1214 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- GLSA-201612-20 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-8719 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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