CVE-2025-53605 – protobuf

Package

Manager: cargo
Name: protobuf
Vulnerable Version: >=0 <3.7.2

Severity

Level: Medium

CVSS v3.1: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4.0: 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

EPSS: 0.0007 pctl0.21849

Details

Crash due to uncontrolled recursion in protobuf crate 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.

Metadata

Created: 2025-03-07T20:02:37Z
Modified: 2025-08-01T19:20:19Z
Source: https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/03/GHSA-2gh3-rmm4-6rq5/GHSA-2gh3-rmm4-6rq5.json
CWE IDs: ["CWE-20", "CWE-770"]
Alternative ID: GHSA-2gh3-rmm4-6rq5
Finding: F067
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