Description
A parsing vulnerability for the MessageSet type in the ProtocolBuffers versions prior to and including 3.16.1, 3.17.3, 3.18.2, 3.19.4, 3.20.1 and 3.21.5 for protobuf-cpp, and versions prior to and including 3.16.1, 3.17.3, 3.18.2, 3.19.4, 3.20.1 and 4.21.5 for protobuf-python can lead to out of memory failures. A specially crafted message with multiple key-value per elements creates parsing issues, and can lead to a Denial of Service against services receiving unsanitized input. We recommend upgrading to versions 3.18.3, 3.19.5, 3.20.2, 3.21.6 for protobuf-cpp and 3.18.3, 3.19.5, 3.20.2, 4.21.6 for protobuf-python. Versions for 3.16 and 3.17 are no longer updated.
References (7)
Core 7
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/09/27/1
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CBAUKJQL6O4TIWYBENORSY5P43TVB4M3/
Mailing List mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/04/msg00019.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MPCGUT3T5L6C3IDWUPSUO22QDCGQKTOP/
Third Party Advisory
https://cloud.google.com/support/bulletins#GCP-2022-019
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/security/advisories/GHSA-8gq9-2x98-w8hf
Vendor Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240705-0001/
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0115
EPSS Percentile
62.6%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-1286
Status
published
Products (6)
debian/debian_linux
10.0
fedoraproject/fedora
36
fedoraproject/fedora
37
google/protobuf-cpp
< 3.18.3
google/protobuf-python
< 3.18.3
pypi/protobuf
0 - 3.18.3PyPI
Published
Sep 22, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026