CVE-2026-43896

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions jq versions prior to 1.8.2

Description Unbounded recursion in the jv object merge recursive() function allows a specially crafted program to crash the process with a segmentation fault (segfault), which is an error occurring when a program attempts to access a memory location that it is not allowed to access. This issue is reachable through the '*' operator when both operands are objects.

Recommendations Update to version 1.8.2 or later.