CVE-2024-7254 (GCVE-0-2024-7254)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-09-19 00:18 – Updated: 2025-09-08 09:37
VLAI?
Title
Stack overflow in Protocol Buffers Java Lite
Summary
Any project that parses untrusted Protocol Buffers data containing an arbitrary number of nested groups / series of SGROUP tags can corrupted by exceeding the stack limit i.e. StackOverflow. Parsing nested groups as unknown fields with DiscardUnknownFieldsParser or Java Protobuf Lite parser, or against Protobuf map fields, creates unbounded recursions that can be abused by an attacker.
Severity ?
8.7 (High)
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
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Google Protocol Buffers Affected: 0 , < 28.2 (custom)
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    Google protobuf-java Affected: 0 , < 3.25.5 (custom)
Affected: 0 , < 4.27.5 (custom)
Affected: 0 , < 4.28.2 (custom)
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    Google protobuf-javalite Affected: 0 , < 3.25.5 (custom)
Affected: 0 , < 4.27.5 (custom)
Affected: 0 , < 4.28.2 (custom)
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    Google protobuf-kotlin Affected: 0 , < 3.25.5 (custom)
Affected: 0 , < 4.27.5 (custom)
Affected: 0 , < 4.28.2 (custom)
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    Google protobuf-kotllin-lite Affected: 0 , < 3.25.5 (custom)
Affected: 0 , < 4.27.5 (custom)
Affected: 0 , < 4.28.2 (custom)
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    Google google-protobuf [JRuby Gem] Affected: 0 , < 3.25.5 (custom)
Affected: 0 , < 4.27.5 (custom)
Affected: 0 , < 4.28.2 (custom)
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Credits
Alexis Challande, Trail of Bits Ecosystem Security Team <ecosystem@trailofbits.com>
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