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CVE-2019-15544
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2019-08-26 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-770
Description
An issue was discovered in the protobuf crate before 2.6.0 for Rust. Attackers can exhaust all memory via Vec::reserve calls.
Affected products
- Apache Software Foundation Apache HBase: 2.2.3
- Rust-Protobuf Project Rust-Protobuf: before 1.7.5; from 2.0.0 before 2.6.0 — fixed in 1.7.5, 2.6.0
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Rust-Protobuf Project Rust-Protobuf 1.7.5, 2.6.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r00097d0b5b6164ea428554007121d5dc1f88ba2af7b9e977a10572cd%40%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4ef574a5621b0e670a3ce641e9922543e34f22bf4c9ee9584aa67fcf%40%3Cissues.hbase.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7fed8dd9bee494094e7011cf3c2ab75bd8754ea314c6734688c42932%40%3Ccommon-issues.hadoop.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd64381fb8f92d640c1975dc50dcdf1b8512e02a2a7b20292d3565cae%40%3Cissues.hbase.apache.org%3E
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2019-0003.html
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r00097d0b5b6164ea428554007121d5dc1f88ba2af7b9e977a10572cd%40%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4ef574a5621b0e670a3ce641e9922543e34f22bf4c9ee9584aa67fcf%40%3Cissues.hbase.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7fed8dd9bee494094e7011cf3c2ab75bd8754ea314c6734688c42932%40%3Ccommon-issues.hadoop.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd64381fb8f92d640c1975dc50dcdf1b8512e02a2a7b20292d3565cae%40%3Cissues.hbase.apache.org%3E
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2019-0003.html
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