github - ghsa-2gh3-rmm4-6rq5

ghsa-2gh3-rmm4-6rq5

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-03-07 20:02

Modified

2025-08-01 19:20

Severity ?

6.6 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U

Summary

Crash due to uncontrolled recursion in protobuf crate

Details

Affected version of this crate did not properly parse unknown fields when parsing a user-supplied input.

This allows an attacker to cause a stack overflow when parsing the message on untrusted data.

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  "modified": "2025-08-01T19:20:19Z",
  "published": "2025-03-07T20:02:37Z",
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CVE-2025-53605 (GCVE-0-2025-53605)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-07-05 00:00

Modified

2025-07-08 14:35

Severity ?

5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE

CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion

Summary

The protobuf crate before 3.7.2 for Rust allows uncontrolled recursion in the protobuf::coded_input_stream::CodedInputStream::skip_group parsing of unknown fields in untrusted input.

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://github.com/stepancheg/rust-protobuf/issues/749
	https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2024-0437
	https://crates.io/crates/protobuf

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	stepancheg	protobuf	Version: 0 ≤

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