protobuf.js: Denial of service from crafted field names in generated code

Description

protobufjs generated JavaScript property accessors from schema-controlled field and oneof names. Certain control characters in field names were not escaped before being embedded into generated function bodies.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): **>= 8.0.0, <= 8.0.1

  <= 7.5.5**

• Patched version(s): **8.0.2

  7.5.6**

References

• GHSA-2pr8-phx7-x9h3
• CVE-2026-44294
• CWE-20
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• protobuf.js: Code injection through bytes field defaults in generated toObject code - CVE-2026-44293
• protobuf.js: Process-wide denial of service through unsafe option paths - CVE-2026-44290
• protobuf.js: Denial of service through unbounded protobuf recursion - CVE-2026-44289
• protobuf.js: Code injection in pbjs static output from crafted schema names - CVE-2026-44295

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Tags:

npm

protobufjs