CVE-2026-77414

Summary

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 Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
jsonata-jsjsonata< 1.8.8affected
jsonata-jsjsonata>= 2.0.0, < 2.2.1affected

Weaknesses

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

References