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CVE-2015-5237
- Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 5.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2017-09-25 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-787
Description
protobuf allows remote authenticated attackers to cause a heap-based buffer overflow.
Affected products
- Python Protobuf: through 3.1.0
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/27/2
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1256426
- https://github.com/google/protobuf/issues/760
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/519eb0fd45642dcecd9ff74cb3e71c20a4753f7d82e2f07864b5108f%40%3Cdev.drill.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b0656d359c7d40ec9f39c8cc61bca66802ef9a2a12ee199f5b0c1442%40%3Cdev.drill.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f9bc3e55f4e28d1dcd1a69aae6d53e609a758e34d2869b4d798e13cc%40%3Cissues.drill.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r00097d0b5b6164ea428554007121d5dc1f88ba2af7b9e977a10572cd%40%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r00d9ab1fc0f1daf14cd4386564dd84f7889404438d81462c86dfa836%40%3Ccommon-dev.hadoop.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r02e39d7beb32eebcdbb4b516e95f67d71c90d5d462b26f4078d21eeb%40%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r02e39d7beb32eebcdbb4b516e95f67d71c90d5d462b26f4078d21eeb%40%3Cuser.flink.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r0ca83171c4898dc92b86fa6f484a7be1dc96206765f4d01dce0f1b28%40%3Ccommon-issues.hadoop.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1263fa5b51e4ec3cb8f09ff40e4747428c71198e9bee93349ec96a3c%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E
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