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CVE-2024-7254

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2024-09-19 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

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 DiscardUnknownFieldsParser or Java Protobuf Lite parser, or against Protobuf map fields, creates unbounded recursions that can be abused by an attacker.

Affected Platforms

Google Protobuf-JavaNetapp BluexpGoogle Protobuf-Kotlin-LiteGoogle Protobuf-JavaliteGoogle Protobuf-KotlinNetapp Ontap ToolsNetapp Active Iq Unified ManagerGoogle Protobuf

Weakness Type

CWE-400, CWE-674, CWE-787

References