#VU112882 Uncontrolled Recursion in protobuf - CVE-2025-4565
Published: July 14, 2025 / Updated: July 16, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU112882
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-4565
CWE-ID: CWE-674
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
protobuf
protobuf
Software vendor:
Google
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
the vulnerability exists due to uncontrolled recursion when parsing untrusted data containing an arbitrary number of recursive groups, recursive messages or a series of SGROUP tags. A remote attacker send specially crafted input to the application and can perform a denial of service attack.
Remediation
Install updates from vendor's website.