A denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability exists in google.protobuf.json_format.ParseDict() in Python, where the max_recursion_depth limit can be bypassed when parsing nested google.protobuf.Any messages.
Due to missing recursion depth accounting inside the internal Any-handling logic, an attacker can supply deeply nested Any structures that bypass the intended recursion limit, eventually exhausting Python’s recursion stack and causing a RecursionError.
Weakness
The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 | RedHat | python3.12-protobuf-0:5.29.6-1.el8ap | * |
| Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 | RedHat | python3.12-protobuf-0:5.29.6-1.el9ap | * |
| Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9 | RedHat | python3.12-protobuf-0:5.29.6-1.el9ap | * |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | RedHat | protobuf-0:3.19.6-15.el10_1 | * |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support | RedHat | protobuf-0:3.19.6-11.el10_0.1 | * |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | RedHat | protobuf-0:3.14.0-17.el9_7 | * |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions | RedHat | protobuf-0:3.14.0-9.el9_0.1 | * |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions | RedHat | protobuf-0:3.14.0-13.el9_2.1 | * |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support | RedHat | protobuf-0:3.14.0-13.el9_4.1 | * |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 Extended Update Support | RedHat | protobuf-0:3.14.0-16.el9_6.1 | * |
| Red Hat AI Inference Server 3.2 | RedHat | rhaiis/vllm-cuda-rhel9:sha256:dcb9d1cd005c40b6db6f893e56419e383b9dcc0d38315605cb1457e2af5354f7 | * |
| Red Hat AI Inference Server 3.2 | RedHat | rhaiis/vllm-rocm-rhel9:sha256:53007894763e03f609c35c727cb738db3c2130b19fa0e1069c24240e0870fb7a | * |
| Protobuf | Ubuntu | devel | * |
| Protobuf | Ubuntu | esm-infra/bionic | * |
| Protobuf | Ubuntu | esm-infra/focal | * |
| Protobuf | Ubuntu | jammy | * |
| Protobuf | Ubuntu | noble | * |
| Protobuf | Ubuntu | questing | * |
| Protobuf | Ubuntu | upstream | * |