CVE-2022-3509 (GCVE-0-2022-3509)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-11-01 18:09 – Updated: 2025-04-22 15:10
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Parsing issue in protobuf textformat
Summary
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Severity
7.5 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-22 15:09 UTC
CWE
- n/a
- CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ProtocolBuffers |
Affected:
3.21.0 , < 3.21.7
(semver)
Affected: 3.20.0 , < 3.20.3 (semver) Affected: 3.19.0 , < 3.19.6 (semver) Affected: 3.16.0 , < 3.16.3 (semver) |
guessed |
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