CVE-2026-45799

HIGH

Wire: skipGroup() missing negative-length check allows 10-byte payload to crash any Wire-decoding service

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

Wire provides gRPC and protocol buffers for Android, Kotlin, Swift, and Java. Prior to 6.3.0 and 7.0.0-alpha03, ByteArrayProtoReader32.skipGroup() and ProtoReader.skipGroup() in wire-runtime do not validate that a LENGTH_DELIMITED field length is non-negative before skip(), allowing a crafted protobuf varint encoding -128 as a signed Int to make skip(-128) move the internal position negative and make the next readByte() throw ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException instead of the documented IOException or ProtocolException, which can crash services using ProtoAdapter.decode(byte[]) on untrusted payloads. This issue is fixed in versions 6.3.0 and 7.0.0-alpha03.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0049
EPSS Percentile 39.4%
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 poc
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-129
Status published
Products (2)
square/wire < 6.3.0
square/wire >= 7.0.0-alpha01, < 7.0.0-alpha03
Published Jul 17, 2026
Tracked Since Jul 18, 2026