protocolbuffers/protobuf · Security

protobuf affected by a JSON recursion depth bypass

GHSA ID
GHSA-7gcm-g887-7qv7
CVE ID
CVE-2026-0994
Severity
high
Published
Updated
CVSS v4
8.2 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L

Description

A denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability exists in google.protobuf.json_format.ParseDict() in Python, where the max_recursion_depth limit can be bypassed when parsing nested google.protobuf.Any messages.

Due to missing recursion depth accounting inside the internal Any-handling logic, an attacker can supply deeply nested Any structures that bypass the intended recursion limit, eventually exhausting Python’s recursion stack and causing a RecursionError.

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