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CVE-2018-3738

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-06-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-770

Description

protobufjs is vulnerable to ReDoS when parsing crafted invalid .proto files.

Affected products

• protobufjs: through 6.8.5

References

• https://hackerone.com/reports/319576
• https://hackerone.com/reports/319576

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