CVE-2026-77413 PUBLISHED

JSONata: Arbitrary Code Execution via crafted JSONata expressions

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 20.08.2026 Published: 21.08.2026 Updated: 21.08.2026

JSONata is a JSON query and transformation language. Prior to 1.8.8 and 2.2.0, the src/functions.js lookup function lacked an Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty check and allowed crafted expressions to access inherited prototype members. An attacker able to supply an expression could use inherited prototype setters and getters, constructor access, valueOf, and process.getBuiltinModule to reach the child_process module and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the host process. This issue is fixed in versions 1.8.8 and 2.2.0.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 9.3

Product Status

Vendor jsonata-js
Product jsonata
Versions
  • Version < 2.2.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') CWE