CVE-2023-36665

criticalpriority · track · 40EPSS 0.017 · 77 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.70% (77th) EPSS

CVSS 9.8 · critical

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4 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

"protobuf.js (aka protobufjs) 6.10.0 through 7.x before 7.2.5 allows Prototype Pollution, a different vulnerability than CVE-2022-25878. A user-controlled protobuf message can be used by an attacker to pollute the prototype of Object.prototype by adding and overwriting its data and functions. Exploitation can involve: (1) using the function parse to parse protobuf messages on the fly, (2) loading .proto files by using load/loadSync functions, or (3) providing untrusted input to the functions ReflectionObject.setParsedOption and util.setProperty.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.9

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.19criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

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weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-1321USprimaryCWE-1321US

affected products (4)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
protobufjs project protobufjs6.10.0 → 7.2.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:protobufjs_project:protobufjs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
npm protobufjs6.10.0 → 6.11.4osvUSpkg:npm/protobufjs
npm protobufjs7.0.0 → 7.2.5osvUSpkg:npm/protobufjs

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-h755-8qp9-cq85protobufjs Prototype Pollution vulnerability2023-07-05ghsa · osvUS
protobuf.js (aka protobufjs) 6.10.0 until 6.11.4 and 7.0.0 until 7.2.4 allows Prototype Pollution, a different vulnerability than CVE-2022-25878. A user-controlled protobuf message can be used by an attacker to pollute the prototype of Object.prototype by adding and overwriting its data and functions. Exploitation can involve: (1) using the function parse to parse protobuf messages on the fly, (2) loading .proto files by using load/loadSync functions, or (3) providing untrusted input to the functions ReflectionObject.setParsedOption and util.setProperty. NOTE: this CVE Record is about `Object.constructor.prototype.<new-property> = ...;` whereas CVE-2022-25878 was about `Object.__proto__.<new-property> = ...;` instead.

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2023-07-05modified 2026-06-17

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references (18)

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