Uncontrolled Recursion in google:protobuf
CVE-2025-4565
- google:protobuf
- protobuf
- qnx:protobuf
Summary
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 (DoS) by crashing the application with a "RecursionError". This issue affects protobuf (Python) versions through 4.25.7, 5.26.0rc1 through 5.29.4, and 6.30.0rc1 through 6.31.0 and protobuf (Cpp) through 3.25.7, 3.26.0-rc1 through 3.29.4, 4.22.0-rc1 through 4.25.7, 4.30.0-rc1 through 4.31.0, 5.26.0-rc1 through 5.29.4, 6.30.0-rc1 through 6.31.0, 16.2 through 25.7, 26-dev through 29.4, 30-dev through 31.0.
- LOW
- NETWORK
- NONE
- UNCHANGED
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- LOW
CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion
The product does not properly control the amount of recursion which takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.
References
Advisory Timeline
- Published