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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2023-24535 json

Panic when parsing invalid messages in google.golang.org/protobuf

published 2023-03-14 3 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also GHSA-hw7c-3rfg-p46j , GO-2023-1631 , EUVD-2023-1039

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 65%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Parsing invalid messages can panic. Parsing a text-format message which contains a potential number consisting of a minus sign, one or more characters of whitespace, and no further input will cause a panic.

Patch / fix

  • go google.golang.org/protobuf 1.29.1
  • google.golang.org/protobuf google.golang.org/protobuf/encoding/prototext 1.29.1
  • google.golang.org/protobuf google.golang.org/protobuf/internal/encoding/text 1.29.1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2023-24535 updated cvss 7.5

golang/Protobuf: panic when parsing an incomplete number

  • Red Hat Cost Management Metrics Operator costmanagement/costmanagement-metrics-rhel8-operator Red Hat Cryostat 2 cryostat-tech-preview/cryostat-rhel8-operator Red Hat OpenShift Serverless openshift-serverless-1-cli openshift-serverless-1-cli, openshift-serverless-1-serving openshift-serverless-1-serving, openshift-serverless-1-eventing openshift-serverless-1-eventing Red Hat 3scale API Management Platform 2 3scale-amp2/3scale-rhel7-operator, 3scale-amp2/apicast-rhel7-operator, 3scale-amp2/3scale-rhel7-operator-metadata, 3scale-amp2/apicast-rhel7-operator-metadata Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 multicloud-operators-foundation Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 podman, skopeo
    +2 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 podman, skopeo, grafana, grafana-loki, podman-tests, skopeo-tests, +19 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 grafana, grafana-selinux
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
22 mo ago

Exploit prediction

1.09% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 65% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go google.golang.org/protobuf
>=1.29.0, <1.29.1
1.29.1

Affected products

  • google.golang.org/protobuf google.golang.org/protobuf/encoding/prototext
  • google.golang.org/protobuf google.golang.org/protobuf/internal/encoding/text

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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