CVE intelligence

CVE-2026-39979

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Apr 13, 2026Sources checked Nov 11, 2026

6.5MEDIUMCVSS out of 10

What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2026-39979 and is rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 6.5. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

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Vendor revision: Sep 25, 2026

CBL-Mariner Releases Release Notes

Vendor-listed releases

1.6-6
1.7.1-5

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSS0.6%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is CVE-2026-39979?

jq is a command-line JSON processor. In commits before 2f09060afab23fe9390cce7cb860b10416e1bf5f, the jv_parse_sized() API in libjq accepts a counted buffer with an explicit length parameter, but its error-handling path formats the input buffer using %s in jv_string_fmt(), which reads until a NUL terminator is found rather than respecting the caller-supplied length.

This means that when malformed JSON is passed in a non-NUL-terminated buffer, the error construction logic performs an out-of-bounds read past the end of the buffer. The vulnerability is reachable by any libjq consumer calling jv_parse_sized() with untrusted input, and depending on memory layout, can result in memory disclosure or process termination.

The issue has been patched in commit 2f09060afab23fe9390cce7cb860b10416e1bf5f.

Source: NVD