CVE-2026-48502
MessagePack-CSharp: Denial of service vulnerabilities can swamp the CPU or crash the process with stack and heap overflows
Record summary
CVE-2026-48502 has a selected CVSS score of 8.2 (high).
Description
MessagePack for C# is a MessagePack serializer for C#. Prior to 2.5.301 and 3.1.7, MessagePackReader.ReadDateTime() can allocate stack memory based on an attacker-controlled MessagePack extension length. In the slow path for timestamp extension parsing, the computed tokenSize includes the extension body length from the wire and is used in a stackalloc operation before the extension length is validated as one of the valid timestamp sizes. A very small payload can claim a large timestamp extension body and cause a stack allocation large enough to trigger an uncatchable StackOverflowException, terminating the host process. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.5.301 and 3.1.7.
Exploitation context
CISA SSVC decision
CISA Coordinator · SSVC 2.0.3 · Evaluated Jun 23, 2026 · Source: CVE List
Affected products and versions
2| Product | Source | Version range | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
MessagePack-CSharpBrowse MessagePack-CSharp / MessagePack-CSharp | CVE List | >= 3.1.7, < 3.1.7 | affected |
| < 2.5.301 | affected | ||
MessagePackBrowse NuGet / MessagePack | GitHub Advisory | 3.0 to < 3.1.7 · Fixed in 3.1.7 | affected |