CVE-2025-4565

MEDIUM

Google Protobuf-python < 4.25.8 - Denial of Service

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

Any project that uses Protobuf Pure-Python backend to parse untrusted Protocol Buffers data containing an arbitrary number of recursive groups, recursive messages or a series of SGROUP tags can be corrupted by exceeding the Python recursion limit. This can result in a Denial of service by crashing the application with a RecursionError. We recommend upgrading to version =>6.31.1 or beyond commit 17838beda2943d08b8a9d4df5b68f5f04f26d901

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0002
EPSS Percentile 3.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-674
Status published
Products (2)
google/protobuf-python < 4.25.8
pypi/protobuf 0 - 4.25.8PyPI
Published Jun 16, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026