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2 vulnerabilities found for Python-Protobuf by protocolbuffers
CVE-2025-4565 (GCVE-0-2025-4565)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-16 14:50 – Updated: 2025-06-16 15:39
VLAI?
Summary
Any project that uses Protobuf Pure-Python backend to parse untrusted Protocol Buffers data containing an arbitrary number of recursive groups, recursive messages or a series of SGROUP tags can be corrupted by exceeding the Python recursion limit. This can result in a Denial of service by crashing the application with a RecursionError. We recommend upgrading to version =>6.31.1 or beyond commit 17838beda2943d08b8a9d4df5b68f5f04f26d901
Severity ?
CWE
- CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| protocolbuffers | Python-Protobuf |
Affected:
0 , < 4.25.8
(semver)
Affected: 0 , < 5.29.5 (semver) Affected: 0 , < 6.31.1 (semver) |
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Credits
Alexis Challande - Trail of Bits Ecosystem Security Team
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CVE-2025-4565 (GCVE-0-2025-4565)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2025-06-16 14:50 – Updated: 2025-06-16 15:39
VLAI?
Summary
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Severity ?
CWE
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Assigner
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