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CVE-2026-44289

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2026-05-13 Modified: 2026-08-12

Description

protobufjs compiles protobuf definitions into JavaScript (JS) functions. Prior to 7.5.6 and 8.0.2, protobufjs could recurse without a depth limit while decoding nested protobuf data. This affected both skipping unknown group fields and generated decoding of nested message fields. A crafted protobuf binary payload could cause the JavaScript call stack to be exhausted during decoding. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.5.6 and 8.0.2.

Affected Platforms

Protobufjs Project Protobufjs

Weakness Type

CWE-674, CWE-606

References