CVE-2026-45799
HIGHWire: skipGroup() missing negative-length check allows 10-byte payload to crash any Wire-decoding service
Title source: cnaDescription
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.
References (7)
Core 7
Core References
X_Refsource_Confirm x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/square/wire/security/advisories/GHSA-7xpr-hc2w-34m9
X_Refsource_Misc x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/square/wire/pull/3595
X_Refsource_Misc x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/square/wire/pull/3597
X_Refsource_Misc x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/square/wire/commit/47d5b0dba53935d5332cd41a80a353b3fc90e7b0
X_Refsource_Misc x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/square/wire/commit/e4e56fab38a547d9625f05c97f1d8f0bcc3a5773
X_Refsource_Misc x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/square/wire/releases/tag/6.3.0
X_Refsource_Misc x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/square/wire/releases/tag/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