CVE-2026-6409

April 17, 2026, 3:17 p.m.

7.1
High

Description

A Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability exists in the Protobuf PHP library during the parsing of untrusted input. Maliciously structured messages—specifically those containing negative varints or deep recursion—can be used to crash the application, impacting service availability.

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor Product Versions
Protobuf
  • Php
  • *

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-20
Improper Input Validation
The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.

*CPE(s)

Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language Software Edition Target Software Target Hardware Other Information
a protobuf php / / / / / / / /

References

https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/security/advisories/GHSA-p2gh-cfq4-4wjc

Tags

CWE-20
[email protected]
2026-04-16
CVE-2026-6409

CVSS Score

7.1 / 10

CVSS Data - 4.0

  • Attack Vector: NETWORK
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Attack Requirements: NONE
  • Privileges Required: NONE
  • User Interaction: PASSIVE
  • Scope:
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: NONE
  • Availability Impact: HIGH
  • Exploit Maturity: NOT_DEFINED

    • CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

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Timeline

Published: April 16, 2026, 3:17 p.m.
Last Modified: April 17, 2026, 3:17 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

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Source

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