Resource exhaustion in Google Google-protobuf [Jruby Gem]
CVE-2024-7254
Any project that parses untrusted Protocol Buffers data containing an arbitrary number of nested groups / series of SGROUP tags can corrupted by exceeding the stack limit i.e. StackOverflow. Parsing nested groups as unknown fields with Dis…
Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)
EPSS: 0.001 (33.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Google Google-protobuf [Jruby Gem] — versions 0
- Google Protobuf-java — versions 0
- Google Protobuf-javalite — versions 0
- Google Protobuf-kotlin — versions 0
- Google Protobuf-kotllin-lite — versions 0
- Google Protocol Buffers — versions 0
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2024-7254?
- CVE-2024-7254 is a vulnerability in Google Google-protobuf [Jruby Gem], classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. Published 2024-09-19.
- Is CVE-2024-7254 known to be exploited?
- 3 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.