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

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.