CVE-2026-77414 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 2.2.1, the src/jsonata.js environment.lookup function used a bypassable hasOwnProperty check. Crafted expressions could use $hasOwnProperty, $spread, $string, prototype access, and $constructor to reach the object prototype and invoke process.getBuiltinModule with child_process, executing arbitrary code with the privileges of the host process. This issue is fixed in versions 1.8.8 and 2.2.1.

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 < 1.8.8 is affected
  • Version >= 2.0.0, < 2.2.1 is affected

References

Problem Types

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