GHSA-2GH3-RMM4-6RQ5

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-03-07 20:02 – Updated: 2025-08-01 19:20
VLAI
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.

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
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "crates.io",
        "name": "protobuf"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3.7.2"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2025-53605"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-20",
      "CWE-770"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2025-03-07T20:02:37Z",
    "nvd_published_at": null,
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "Affected version of this crate did not properly parse unknown fields when parsing a user-supplied input.\n\nThis allows an attacker to cause a stack overflow when parsing the message on untrusted data.",
  "id": "GHSA-2gh3-rmm4-6rq5",
  "modified": "2025-08-01T19:20:19Z",
  "published": "2025-03-07T20:02:37Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53605"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/stepancheg/rust-protobuf/issues/749"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/stepancheg/rust-protobuf/commit/f06992f46771c0a092593b9ebf7afd48740b3ed6"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/stepancheg/rust-protobuf"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2024-0437.html"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "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",
      "type": "CVSS_V4"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Crash due to uncontrolled recursion in protobuf crate"
}


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