CVE-2024-7254

Aliases:GHSA-735f-pc8j-v9w8
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 15
Analyzed
Published: 19 Sept 2024, 00:18
Last modified:08 Sept 2025, 09:37

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
35/100
CVSS Score
8.7 HIGH
v4.0 (cve.org)
EPSS Score
0.13% LOW
0% probability +0.05%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

19 Sept 2024, 00:18
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
08 Sept 2025, 09:37
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v4.0•HIGH•Score: 8.7CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
  • v4.0•HIGH•Score: 8.7CVSS: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:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.13%• Percentile: 33%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-400•Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

    The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.

  • CWE-674•Uncontrolled Recursion

    The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

  • CWE-787•Out-of-bounds Write

    The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.

Affected Systems

  • RubyGems•google-protobuf

    < 3.25.5 | ≥ 4.0.0.rc.1, < 4.27.5 | ≥ 4.28.0.rc.1, < 4.28.2

  • google•google-protobuf [jruby gem]

    < 3.25.5 | < 4.27.5 | < 4.28.2

  • google•protobuf

    < 3.25.5 | ≥ 4.0.0, < 4.27.5 | ≥ 4.28.0, < 4.28.2

  • google•protobuf-java

    < 4.27.5 | < 4.28.2 | < 3.25.5 | ≥ 4.0.0, < 4.27.5 | ≥ 4.28.0, < 4.28.2

  • google•protobuf-javalite

    < 4.27.5 | < 4.28.2 | < 3.25.5 | ≥ 4.0.0, < 4.27.5 | ≥ 4.28.0, < 4.28.2

  • google•protobuf-kotlin

    < 4.27.5 | < 4.28.2 | < 3.25.5 | ≥ 4.0.0, < 4.27.5 | ≥ 4.28.0, < 4.28.2

  • google•protobuf-kotlin-lite

    < 3.25.5 | ≥ 4.0.0, < 4.27.5 | ≥ 4.28.0, ≤ 4.28.2

  • google•protobuf-kotllin-lite

    < 3.25.5 | < 4.27.5 | < 4.28.2

  • google•protocol buffers

    < 28.2

  • com.google.protobuf•protobuf-java

    < 3.25.5 | ≥ 4.0.0-RC1, < 4.27.5 | ≥ 4.28.0-RC1, < 4.28.2

  • com.google.protobuf•protobuf-javalite

    < 3.25.5 | ≥ 4.0.0-RC1, < 4.27.5 | ≥ 4.28.0-RC1, < 4.28.2

  • com.google.protobuf•protobuf-kotlin

    < 3.25.5 | ≥ 4.0.0-RC1, < 4.27.5 | ≥ 4.28.0-RC1, < 4.28.2

  • com.google.protobuf•protobuf-kotlin-lite

    < 3.25.5 | ≥ 4.0.0-RC1, < 4.27.5 | ≥ 4.28.0-RC1, < 4.28.2

  • netapp•active_iq_unified_manager

    na

  • netapp•bluexp

    na

  • netapp•ontap_tools

    10

References (14)