CVE-2026-45740 (GCVE-0-2026-45740)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-13 14:46 – Updated: 2026-05-13 18:20
VLAI
Title
protobufjs: Denial of Service via unbounded recursive JSON descriptor expansion
Summary
protobufjs compiles protobuf definitions into JavaScript (JS) functions. Prior to 7.5.8 and 8.2.0, protobufjs could recurse without a depth limit while expanding nested JSON descriptors through Root.fromJSON() and Namespace.addJSON(). A crafted JSON descriptor with deeply nested namespace definitions could cause the JavaScript call stack to be exhausted during descriptor loading. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.5.8 and 8.2.0.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
protobufjs protobuf.js Affected: < 7.5.8
Affected: >= 8.0.0, < 8.2.0
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