CVE-2023-24535
Panic when parsing invalid messages in google.golang.org/protobuf
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Go
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Go
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 19 months later
· 19 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.1% · top 34% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read
- CWE-125 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-125 and its CVEs
Affected products
google.golang.org/protobuf · google.golang.org/protobuf/encoding/prototext
- affected 1.29.0 – < 1.29.1
google.golang.org/protobuf · google.golang.org/protobuf/internal/encoding/text
- affected 1.29.0 – < 1.29.1
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogoogle.golang.org/protobufGHSA-hw7c-3rfg-p46j (opens in a new tab)
References (3)
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-hw7c-3rfg-p46j (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2023-24535)Record last updated .