RUSTSEC-2024-0437

Source
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2024-0437
Import Source
https://github.com/rustsec/advisory-db/blob/osv/crates/RUSTSEC-2024-0437.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/RUSTSEC-2024-0437
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Related
Published
2024-12-12T12:00:00Z
Modified
2025-10-28T06:29:06.189090Z
Summary
Crash due to uncontrolled recursion in protobuf crate
Details

Affected version of this crate did not properly parse unknown fields when parsing a user-supplied input.

This allows an attacker to cause a stack overflow when parsing the mssage on untrusted data.

Database specific
{
    "license": "CC0-1.0"
}
References

Affected packages

crates.io / protobuf

Package

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
0.0.0-0
Fixed
3.7.2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "affected_functions": null,
    "affects": {
        "os": [],
        "functions": [
            "protobuf::coded_input_stream::CodedInputStream::skip_group"
        ],
        "arch": []
    }
}

Database specific

informational

null

cvss

null

categories

[
    "denial-of-service"
]