Vulnerabilites related to protocolbuffers - Python-Protobuf
CVE-2025-4565 (GCVE-0-2025-4565)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-06-16 14:50
Modified
2025-06-16 15:39
CWE
Summary
Any project that uses Protobuf Pure-Python backend to parse untrusted Protocol Buffers data containing an arbitrary number of recursive groups, recursive messages or a series of SGROUP tags can be corrupted by exceeding the Python recursion limit. This can result in a Denial of service by crashing the application with a RecursionError. We recommend upgrading to version =>6.31.1 or beyond commit 17838beda2943d08b8a9d4df5b68f5f04f26d901
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