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CVE

CVE-2026-0994

protobuf affected by a JSON recursion depth bypass
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CVE

CVE-2026-0994

protobuf affected by a JSON recursion depth bypass

A denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability exists in google.protobuf.jsonformat.ParseDict() in Python, where the maxrecursion_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.

Package Versions Affected

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CVSS Version

Severity
Base Score
CVSS Version
Score Vector
C
H
U
8.2
-
4.0
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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
C
H
U
0
-
C
H
U
7.5
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3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Related Resources

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-0994, https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/issues/25070, https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/pull/25239, https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/5ebddcb1bcbe51d1fe323baa145e85f4f23128cf, https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/d2b001626d137c62dfee6c88c87324102531868b, https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf

Severity

7.5

CVSS Score
0
10

Basic Information

Ecosystem
Base CVSS
7.5
EPSS Probability
0.00025%
EPSS Percentile
0.06495%
Introduced Version
6.30.0rc1,3.20.0rc1,4.21.0rc1,4.0.0rc1,3.0.0b4,3.0.0b2.post1
Fix Available
6.33.5

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