CVE-2026-45799 PUBLISHED

Wire: skipGroup() missing negative-length check allows 10-byte payload to crash any Wire-decoding service

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 13.05.2026 Published: 17.07.2026 Updated: 17.07.2026

Wire provides gRPC and protocol buffers for Android, Kotlin, Swift, and Java. Prior to 6.3.0 and 7.0.0-alpha03, ByteArrayProtoReader32.skipGroup() and ProtoReader.skipGroup() in wire-runtime do not validate that a LENGTH_DELIMITED field length is non-negative before skip(), allowing a crafted protobuf varint encoding -128 as a signed Int to make skip(-128) move the internal position negative and make the next readByte() throw ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException instead of the documented IOException or ProtocolException, which can crash services using ProtoAdapter.decode(byte[]) on untrusted payloads. This issue is fixed in versions 6.3.0 and 7.0.0-alpha03.

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

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Product wire
Versions
  • Version < 6.3.0 is affected
  • Version >= 7.0.0-alpha01, < 7.0.0-alpha03 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-129: Improper Validation of Array Index CWE