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Uncontrolled memory consumption in protobuf

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Aug 25, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jun 13, 2023

Package

cargo protobuf (Rust)

Affected versions

< 2.6.0

Patched versions

2.6.0

Description

Affected versions of this crate called Vec::reserve() on user-supplied input. This allows an attacker to cause an Out of Memory condition while calling the vulnerable method on untrusted data.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 26, 2019
Reviewed Aug 19, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 25, 2021
Last updated Jun 13, 2023

Severity

High
7.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2019-15544

GHSA ID

GHSA-mh6h-f25p-98f8

Source code

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