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UBUNTU-CVE-2022-3509 (CVE-2022-3509)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2022-12-12 13:15 – Updated: 2026-04-22 07:41 – Source website

Details

A parsing issue similar to CVE-2022-3171, but with textformat in protobuf-java core and lite versions prior to 3.21.7, 3.20.3, 3.19.6 and 3.16.3 can lead to a denial of service attack. Inputs containing multiple instances of non-repeated embedded messages with repeated or unknown fields causes objects to be converted back-n-forth between mutable and immutable forms, resulting in potentially long garbage collection pauses. We recommend updating to the versions mentioned above.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

7.5 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-3509	REPORT
	https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commi…	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-3509	REPORT

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CVE-2022-3509 (GCVE-0-2022-3509)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-11-01 18:09 – Updated: 2025-04-22 15:10

Title

Parsing issue in protobuf textformat

Summary

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-04-22 15:09 UTC

CWE

n/a
CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Assigner

Google Google root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commi…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Google	ProtocolBuffers	Affected: 3.21.0 , < 3.21.7 (semver) Affected: 3.20.0 , < 3.20.3 (semver) Affected: 3.19.0 , < 3.19.6 (semver) Affected: 3.16.0 , < 3.16.3 (semver)

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