Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding Affecting protobufjs package, versions <7.5.6>=8.0.0-experimental <8.0.2>=8.0.3-experimental <8.0.3>=8.0.4-experimental <8.2.0
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- published13 May 2026
- disclosed12 May 2026
- creditMalikX
Introduced: 12 May 2026
NewCVE-2026-44288 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade protobufjs to version 7.5.6, 8.0.2, 8.0.3, 8.2.0 or higher.
Overview
protobufjs is a protocol buffer for JavaScript (& TypeScript).
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding in the decoding of overlong UTF-8 strings. An attacker can bypass application-level byte filtering or validation by sending malicious sequences that decode to canonical characters. This is only exploitable if the application decodes protobuf binary data using the minimal UTF-8 decoder and relies on byte-level filtering before string decoding.