RUSTSEC-2024-0437

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    RUSTSEC-2024-0437

    Published: 12 Dec 2024Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026

    Summary: Crash due to uncontrolled recursion in protobuf crate

    Details: Affected version of this crate did not properly parse unknown fields when parsing a user-supplied input. This allows an attacker to cause a stack overflow when parsing the mssage on untrusted data.

    References: https://crates.io/crates/protobuf, https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2024-0437.html, https://github.com/stepancheg/rust-protobuf/issues/749

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: protobuf

    Purl: pkg:cargo/protobuf

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0.0.0-0
    Fixed -3.7.2

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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