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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD9.3 Critical

CVE-2026-77414

JSONata: Arbitrary Code Execution via crafted JSONata expressions

Description

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

jsonata-js jsonata

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

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