diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/jq/jq/CVE-2026-40164.patch b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/jq/jq/CVE-2026-40164.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..91b778a6b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/jq/jq/CVE-2026-40164.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+From 5077fc0780810ba556518ff3ae34df0832a469d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: itchyny <itchyny@cybozu.co.jp>
+Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:53:26 +0900
+Subject: [PATCH] Randomize hash seed to mitigate hash collision DoS attacks
+
+The hash function used a fixed seed, allowing attackers to craft colliding keys
+and cause O(n^2) object parsing performance. Initialize the seed from a random
+source at process startup to prevent the attack. This fixes CVE-2026-40164.
+
+Co-authored-by: Asaf Meizner <asafmeizner@gmail.com>
+
+CVE: CVE-2026-40164
+Upstream-Status: Backport [https://github.com/jqlang/jq/commit/0c7d133c3c7e37c00b6d46b658a02244fdd3c784]
+
+Signed-off-by: Daniel Turull <daniel.turull@ericsson.com>
+---
+ configure.ac |  2 ++
+ src/jv.c     | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
+ 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
+index 118e084..7f12b52 100644
+--- a/configure.ac
++++ b/configure.ac
+@@ -149,6 +149,8 @@ AC_CHECK_MEMBER([struct tm.tm_gmtoff], [AC_DEFINE([HAVE_TM_TM_GMT_OFF],1,[Define
+ AC_CHECK_MEMBER([struct tm.__tm_gmtoff], [AC_DEFINE([HAVE_TM___TM_GMT_OFF],1,[Define to 1 if the system has the __tm_gmt_off field in struct tm])],
+                 [], [[#include <time.h>]])
+ AC_FIND_FUNC([setlocale], [c], [#include <locale.h>], [0,0])
++AC_FIND_FUNC([arc4random], [c], [#include <stdlib.h>], [])
++AC_FIND_FUNC([getentropy], [c], [#include <unistd.h>], [0, 0])
+ 
+ dnl Figure out if we have the pthread functions we actually need
+ AC_FIND_FUNC_NO_LIBS([pthread_key_create], [], [#include <pthread.h>], [NULL, NULL])
+diff --git a/src/jv.c b/src/jv.c
+index 18dbb54..27cc2a4 100644
+--- a/src/jv.c
++++ b/src/jv.c
+@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@
+ #include <limits.h>
+ #include <math.h>
+ #include <float.h>
++#include <time.h>
++#include <unistd.h>
++#include <fcntl.h>
++#include <pthread.h>
+ 
+ #include "jv_alloc.h"
+ #include "jv.h"
+@@ -1174,7 +1178,33 @@ static jv jvp_string_append(jv string, const char* data, uint32_t len) {
+   }
+ }
+ 
+-static const uint32_t HASH_SEED = 0x432A9843;
++static uint32_t hash_seed;
++static pthread_once_t hash_seed_once = PTHREAD_ONCE_INIT;
++
++static void jvp_hash_seed_init(void) {
++  uint32_t seed;
++#if defined(HAVE_ARC4RANDOM)
++  seed = arc4random();
++#elif defined(HAVE_GETENTROPY)
++  if (getentropy(&seed, sizeof(seed)) != 0)
++    seed = (uint32_t)getpid() ^ (uint32_t)time(NULL);
++#else
++  int fd = open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY);
++  if (fd >= 0) {
++    if (read(fd, &seed, sizeof(seed)) != 4)
++      seed = (uint32_t)getpid() ^ (uint32_t)time(NULL);
++    close(fd);
++  } else {
++    seed = (uint32_t)getpid() ^ (uint32_t)time(NULL);
++  }
++#endif
++  hash_seed = seed;
++}
++
++static uint32_t jvp_hash_seed(void) {
++  pthread_once(&hash_seed_once, jvp_hash_seed_init);
++  return hash_seed;
++}
+ 
+ static uint32_t rotl32 (uint32_t x, int8_t r){
+   return (x << r) | (x >> (32 - r));
+@@ -1193,7 +1223,7 @@ static uint32_t jvp_string_hash(jv jstr) {
+   int len = (int)jvp_string_length(str);
+   const int nblocks = len / 4;
+ 
+-  uint32_t h1 = HASH_SEED;
++  uint32_t h1 = jvp_hash_seed();
+ 
+   const uint32_t c1 = 0xcc9e2d51;
+   const uint32_t c2 = 0x1b873593;
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/jq/jq_1.7.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/jq/jq_1.7.1.bb
index dfc8dda7ee..566e8017dc 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/jq/jq_1.7.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/jq/jq_1.7.1.bb
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ SRC_URI = "${GITHUB_BASE_URI}/download/${BPN}-${PV}/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz \
     file://CVE-2024-53427.patch \
     file://CVE-2025-48060.patch \
     file://CVE-2025-9403.patch \
+    file://CVE-2026-40164.patch \
     "
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "478c9ca129fd2e3443fe27314b455e211e0d8c60bc8ff7df703873deeee580c2"