CVE-2026-63126
highWire provides gRPC and protocol buffers for Android, Kotlin, Swift, and Java.
Wire provides gRPC and protocol buffers for Android, Kotlin, Swift, and Java. Prior to 6.4.5 and 7.0.0-alpha04, Wire protobuf readers do not consistently validate attacker-controlled lengths against the current logical message boundary before advancing cursors, pointers, limits, slices, or allocations. In Kotlin, ProtoAdapter.decode(ByteArray) and ProtoAdapter.decode(ByteString) use ByteArrayProtoReader32.internalNextLengthDelimited(), where a positive oversized length can wrap pos + length to a negative limit and escape the existing negative-length check. Related ProtoReader, ReadBuffer.readVarint(), ReadBuffer.verifyAdditional(count:), packed-repeated, nested-message, and ProtoDecoder.decodeSizeDelimited(_:from:) paths can cross logical boundaries, perform pointer arithmetic, reserve capacity, or convert an unrepresentable size before proving the requested bytes exist. An attacker who supplies malformed protobuf bytes can cause unchecked exceptions, traps, out-of-bounds behavior, or excessive allocation, resulting in denial of service without known confidentiality, integrity, or code-execution impact. This issue is fixed in versions 6.4.5 and 7.0.0-alpha04.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Affected products
Not reported by the source (unknown — not "none").
Weakness classification (CWE)
Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.
Mitigation & advisories
No vendor advisory or patch reference tagged by NVD. Check the references below.
References
- https://github.com/square/wire/commit/082d5d83cec57ef68f1dd7d3e3d1d641c1fb670f security-advisories@github.com
- https://github.com/square/wire/commit/25ebcabb9ab7f12d1d77af75ecbc51726fddc015 security-advisories@github.com
- https://github.com/square/wire/pull/3635 security-advisories@github.com
- https://github.com/square/wire/releases/tag/6.4.5 security-advisories@github.com
- https://github.com/square/wire/releases/tag/7.0.0-alpha04 security-advisories@github.com
- https://github.com/square/wire/security/advisories/GHSA-9rm7-3qhh-h2mc security-advisories@github.com
- https://github.com/square/wire/security/advisories/GHSA-9rm7-3qhh-h2mc 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
