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CVE-2026-0994

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CVE-2026-0994

Published: Jan 23, 2026

Modified: Jan 30, 2026

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

Python

Protobuf

affected
<=v33.4

Weaknesses (CWE)

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