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CVE-2026-89418

8.7 highEPSS 0.3%

High (8.7). EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

google-protobuf contains an unbounded recursion when parsing unknown protobuf group fields. An attacker can send a small crafted payload of deeply nested START_GROUP wire bytes to any Node.js service that calls the generated deserializeBinary() API, causing a RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded and crashing the process. No authentication or prior knowledge of the schema is required.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

8.7 high
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 20% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-674
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

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