CVE-2026-44289 PUBLISHED

protobufjs: Denial of service through unbounded protobuf recursion

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 05.05.2026 Published: 13.05.2026 Updated: 13.05.2026

protobufjs compiles protobuf definitions into JavaScript (JS) functions. Prior to 7.5.6 and 8.0.2, protobufjs could recurse without a depth limit while decoding nested protobuf data. This affected both skipping unknown group fields and generated decoding of nested message fields. A crafted protobuf binary payload could cause the JavaScript call stack to be exhausted during decoding. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.5.6 and 8.0.2.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 7.5

Product Status

Vendor protobufjs
Product protobuf.js
Versions
  • Version < 7.5.6 is affected
  • Version >= 8.0.0, < 8.0.2 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-674: Uncontrolled Recursion CWE