MediumGHSA-762f-c2wg-m8c8CVE-2018-3738

Denial of Service in protobufjs

Published 9 Oct 2018 · Updated 8 Nov 2023

Affected packages

protobufjsnpm

Affected: >=6.0.0 <6.8.6
Fixed in: 6.8.6

Update to the fixed version for your release line, for example:npm install protobufjs@6.8.6

protobufjsnpm

Affected: <5.0.3
Fixed in: 5.0.3

Update to the fixed version for your release line, for example:npm install protobufjs@5.0.3

Details

Versions of protobufjs before 5.0.3 and 6.8.6 are vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service when parsing crafted invalid *.proto files.

Recommendation

Update to version 5.0.3, 6.8.6 or later.

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References

Advisory data from OSV.dev (opens OSV.dev in a new tab), refreshed daily.