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.
CWEs
- CWE-674 · Uncontrolled Recursion
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-0994 ↗
- https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/pull/25239 ↗
- https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/issues/25070 ↗
- https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/d2b001626d137c62dfee6c88c87324102531868b ↗
- https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/5ebddcb1bcbe51d1fe323baa145e85f4f23128cf ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7gcm-g887-7qv7 ↗