Integer Overflow Affecting google-protobuf package, versions <3.4.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    1.68% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-GOOGLEPROTOBUF-472379
  • published 10 Mar 2019
  • disclosed 25 Sep 2017
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade google-protobuf to version 3.4.0 or higher.

Overview

google-protobuf is a Google's data interchange format.

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.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
8.8 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

8.8 high
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Red Hat

3.7 low