CVE-2024-23337VulnerabilityPublished 8 Jul 2025Updated 21 Aug 2026

Red Hat Security Advisory: jq security update

Affects Red HatSource GCVE Database

Mentioned vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-48060

Not known to be exploited : upgrade to 8.8.1 when convenient.

Data as of 25 Oct 2026, 19:02 UTC

Severity

Medium

Rated by Threat Radar · No CVSS score from NVD or the CNA

EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 39% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Patch: Available – fixed in 8.8.1

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 8 Jul 2025
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 2026-10-25.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponised: Public exploit code exists in Metasploit or Exploit-DB, or CISA SSVC reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

Upgrade Red Hat to 8.8.1.

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
Red Hat Product Security Red Hat	Affected >=8.8 <8.8.1	Fixed in 8.8.1

AI-suggested

Red Hat has released updated jq packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 that fix these vulnerabilities. Users should apply the security update as described in Red Hat Advisory RHSA-2025:10619. Refer to https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 for update instructions. No additional mitigation is indicated by the vendor.

Description

Red Hat has issued a security advisory for jq, a command-line JSON processor, addressing two vulnerabilities: a signed integer overflow (CVE-2024-23337) and a stack-buffer-overflow detected by AddressSanitizer (CVE-2025-48060). These issues affect jq in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 prior to version 8.8.1. The vulnerabilities have been rated with moderate severity by Red Hat. Updated packages fixing these issues are available for affected Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 variants.

Impact

The vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to cause memory corruption or application crashes when processing specially crafted JSON data with jq. This may lead to denial of service or potentially other undefined behavior depending on exploitation. Red Hat rates the impact as moderate. There are no known exploits in the wild at this time.

Summary

The jq utility in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 contains two security flaws: a signed integer overflow in the jv.c:jvp_array_write function (CVE-2024-23337) and a stack-buffer-overflow in jq_fuzz_execute (jv_string_vfmt) detected by AddressSanitizer (CVE-2025-48060). These vulnerabilities could potentially lead to memory corruption or crashes. Red Hat has released updated jq packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 that address these issues. The advisory references Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2025:10619 for details and remediation instructions.

CWE-190Integer Overflow or Wraparound (opens in a new tab)
Base weaknessLikelihood of exploit: Medium
The product performs a calculation that can produce an integer overflow or wraparound when the logic assumes that the resulting value will always be larger than the original value. This occurs when an integer value is incremented to a value that is too large to store in the associated representation. When this occurs, the value may become a very small or negative number.
Requirements
Ensure that all protocols are strictly defined, such that all out-of-bounds behavior can be identified simply, and require strict conformance to the protocol.
Requirements · Language Selection
Use a language that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
Architecture and Design · Libraries or Frameworks
Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
OWASP Cheat Sheets
XML Security (opens in a new tab)
Mass Assignment (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V5.4.3 (opens in a new tab)
V13.3.1 (opens in a new tab)
V5.1.4 (opens in a new tab)
Attack patterns
Forced Integer Overflow (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).
CWE-126Buffer Over-read (opens in a new tab)
Variant weakness
The product reads from a buffer using buffer access mechanisms such as indexes or pointers that reference memory locations after the targeted buffer.
OWASP Cheat Sheets
XML Security (opens in a new tab)
Mass Assignment (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V13.3.1 (opens in a new tab)
V5.1.4 (opens in a new tab)
V5.1.3 (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

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Description

AI analysisMachine-generated, updated 21 Aug 2026, 16:14 UTC

WeaknessesCWE-190, CWE-126

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