7.1
/ 10
HIGH
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
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.
Basic Information
ID
CVE-2026-6409
Source
Google
Published
Apr 16, 2026 at 14:30
Affected Product
Vendor
Protocol Buffers
Product
Protobuf-php (Pecl)
Affected Versions
Protocol Buffers Protobuf-php (Pecl) 0
Protocol Buffers Protobuf-php (Pecl) 0
Protocol Buffers Protobuf-php (Pecl) 0