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CVE-2018-3738
protobufjs is vulnerable to ReDoS when parsing crafted invalid .proto files.
Medium5.5EPSS 0.94%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- hackerone
Description
protobufjs is vulnerable to ReDoS when parsing crafted invalid .proto files.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.94% · top 39% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Weakness
Affected products
HackerOne · protobufjs node module
- affected Versions up to and including 6.8.5
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmprotobufjsGHSA-762f-c2wg-m8c8 (opens in a new tab)
References (1)
- https://hackerone.com/reports/319576 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-762f-c2wg-m8c8 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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