CVE-2025-53605
mediumpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.005 · 41 %ileEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
The protobuf crate before 3.7.2 for Rust allows uncontrolled recursion in the protobuf::coded_input_stream::CodedInputStream::skip_group parsing of unknown fields in untrusted input.
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affected products (5)
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advisories (2)
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- GHSA-2gh3-rmm4-6rq5Crash due to uncontrolled recursion in protobuf crate2025-03-07ghsa · osvUS
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.
- RUSTSEC-2024-0437Crash due to uncontrolled recursion in protobuf crate2024-12-12vendor · osvUS
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 mssage on untrusted data.
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references (10)
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- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2025-53605cnnvd
- https://crates.io/crates/protobufPatchcnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53605cnnvd
- https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Rust-protobuf-denial-of-service-via-Uncontrolled-Recursion-48318cnnvd
- https://crates.io/crates/protobufenisa_euvd
- https://github.com/stepancheg/rust-protobuf/issues/749enisa_euvd
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2024-0437enisa_euvd
- https://crates.io/crates/protobufnvd
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