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Integer Overflow Affecting com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java package, versions [,3.4.0)

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 1.68% (88th percentile)
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NVD
8.8 high
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Red Hat
3.7 low

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-COMGOOGLEPROTOBUF-173761
  • published 10 Mar 2019
  • disclosed 25 Sep 2017
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 25 Sep 2017

CVE-2015-5237 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-119 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java to version 3.4.0 or higher.

Overview

com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java is a Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow by allowing remote authenticated attackers to cause a heap-based buffer overflow in serialisation process.

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