CVE-2026-89418EPSS p18.3%

CVE-2026-89418CVE-2026-89418

Description

google-protobuf contains an unbounded recursion when parsing unknown protobuf group fields. An attacker can send a small crafted payload of deeply nested START_GROUP wire bytes to any Node.js service that calls the generated deserializeBinary() API, causing a RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded and crashing the process. No authentication or prior knowledge of the schema is required.

Scoring

EPSS0.28% probability of exploitation · percentile 18.3% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z
Last modified2026-09-18
Sourced from NVD + FIRST.org EPSS. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.