SARA / Free Tools / CVE / CVE-2023-24535

CVE-2023-24535 — Parsing invalid messages can panic

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.

CVSS
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EPSS
0.37% (top 41.50%)
CWE
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Published
2023-06-08T20:26:40.313Z
Last modified
2025-01-06T19:33:28.532Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

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.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
google.golang.orgprotobuf / google.golang.org/protobuf/encoding/prototext1.29.0
google.golang.orgprotobuf / google.golang.org/protobuf/internal/encoding/text1.29.0

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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