CVE-2026-0994

Published: January 27, 2026Last modified: February 10, 2026

Description

A denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability exists in google.protobuf.json_format.ParseDict() in Python, where the max_recursion_depth limit can be bypassed when parsing nested google.protobuf.Any messages. Due to missing recursion depth accounting inside the internal Any-handling logic, an attacker can supply deeply nested Any structures that bypass the intended recursion limit, eventually exhausting Python’s recursion stack and causing a RecursionError.

Notes

The 'protobuf' aport doesn't provide a Python library which contains a vulnerability.

Status

ProductReleasePackageStatus
Alpaquita Linux23 LTSprotobufNot affected (3.21.9-r0)
25 LTSprotobufNot affected (29.4-r0)
StreamprotobufNot affected (3.21.12-r0)
py3-protobufFixed (6.33.5-r0)

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