CVE-2025-53605
MEDIUM5.9EPSS 0.18%Crash due to uncontrolled recursion in protobuf crate
Published: 3/7/2025Modified: 2/4/2026
Description
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.
Affected packages (3)
- crates.io/protobuffrom 0, < 3.7.2
- crates.io/protobuf>= 0.0.0-0, < 3.7.2
- Debian/rust-protobuffrom 0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References (7)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53605
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-53605
- PATCHhttps://crates.io/crates/protobuf
- PATCHhttps://github.com/stepancheg/rust-protobuf
- WEBhttps://github.com/stepancheg/rust-protobuf/commit/f06992f46771c0a092593b9ebf7afd48740b3ed6
- WEBhttps://github.com/stepancheg/rust-protobuf/issues/749
- WEBhttps://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2024-0437.html