CVE-2026-0994 Affecting libprotoc25_1_0 package, versions <25.1-150500.12.14.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.71% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-LIBPROTOC2510-15304452
  • published17 Feb 2026
  • disclosed14 Feb 2026

Introduced: 14 Feb 2026

CVE-2026-0994  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 libprotoc25_1_0 to version 25.1-150500.12.14.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libprotoc25_1_0 package and not the libprotoc25_1_0 package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.5 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1