Denial of Service in protobufjs (GHSA-762f-c2wg-m8c8)

Description

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 the protobufjs package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): **< 5.0.3

  >= 6.0.0, < 6.8.6**

• Patched version(s): **5.0.3

  6.8.6**

References

• GHSA-762f-c2wg-m8c8
• hackerone.com
• www.npmjs.com
• CVE-2018-3738
• CWE-1333
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

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• Prototype Pollution in lodash (GHSA-p6mc-m468-83gw) 2 - CVE-2020-8203
• IPX Allows Path Traversal via Prefix Matching Bypass - CVE-2025-54387

Tags:

npm

protobufjs