CVE-2026-54679

medium Red Hat
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Published: June 25, 2026 (14 days ago)
Last Modified: June 25, 2026
Vendor: Red Hat
Source: REDHAT

Description

A flaw was found in jq, a command-line JSON processor. On 32-bit systems, a local attacker could exploit an integer overflow vulnerability in the `jvp_string_append` function. This could lead to a massive buffer overrun, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition.

CWE

CWE-190

Affected Products

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2Red Hat Ceph Storage 4Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat Hardened ImagesRed Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4

References

🔗 bugzilla.redhat.com 🔗 www.cve.org 🔗 nvd.nist.gov 🔗 github.com