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CVE-2026-92707: MessagePack: Nested arrays can blow past buffer length limits
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-10-15 · updated 2026-10-16
- Weakness: CWE-1325
Description
MessagePack for C# is a MessagePack serializer for C#. Prior to 2.5.303 and 3.1.9, deserializing attacker-controlled MessagePack data as System.Object through PrimitiveObjectFormatter can cause excessive memory allocation. The formatter allocates an object[] from each declared array length before the configured object-graph depth limit rejects the input, while nested array headers can reuse the same trailing unread bytes to satisfy per-header length validation. A comparatively small payload can therefore keep many large arrays alive at once. When an attacker can submit such data repeatedly, the allocations can cause severe managed-heap pressure, excessive garbage collection, process termination, or loss of service. Exposure requires an application to deserialize untrusted data through the affected formatter path and permit repeated attacker-controlled submissions, such as a reachable ASP.NET Core SignalR hub method with an object parameter and AddMessagePackProtocol() enabled. This issue is fixed in versions 2.5.303 and 3.1.9.
Affected products
- MessagePack-CSharp: before 2.5.303; from 3.0.0, < 3.1.9
References
- https://github.com/MessagePack-CSharp/MessagePack-CSharp/commit/7fd78bbf3476e03beae8b0f7a521125525a8a64a
- https://github.com/MessagePack-CSharp/MessagePack-CSharp/commit/95b63fca4f7097d3cac12d1a95286af4b4bbf02c
- https://github.com/MessagePack-CSharp/MessagePack-CSharp/releases/tag/v2.5.303
- https://github.com/MessagePack-CSharp/MessagePack-CSharp/releases/tag/v3.1.9
- https://github.com/MessagePack-CSharp/MessagePack-CSharp/security/advisories/GHSA-qhrr-8q5h-9q3h
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