CVE-2026-45799
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CVE-2026-45799 is a high-severity vulnerability rated 7.5/10 on the CVSS scale. Wire provides gRPC and protocol buffers for Android, Kotlin, Swift, and Java. Prior to 6.3.0 and 7.0.0-alpha03, ByteArrayProtoReader32.skipGroup() and ProtoReader.skipGroup() in wire-runtime do not validate that a LENGTH_DELIMITED field length is non-negative before skip(), allowing a crafted protobuf varint encoding -128 as a signed Int to make skip(-128) move the internal position negative and make the next readByte() throw ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException instead of the documented IOException or ProtocolException, which can crash services using ProtoAdapter.decode(byte[]) on untrusted payloads. EPSS estimates a 0.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Description
Wire provides gRPC and protocol buffers for Android, Kotlin, Swift, and Java. Prior to 6.3.0 and 7.0.0-alpha03, ByteArrayProtoReader32.skipGroup() and ProtoReader.skipGroup() in wire-runtime do not validate that a LENGTH_DELIMITED field length is non-negative before skip(), allowing a crafted protobuf varint encoding -128 as a signed Int to make skip(-128) move the internal position negative and make the next readByte() throw ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException instead of the documented IOException or ProtocolException, which can crash services using ProtoAdapter.decode(byte[]) on untrusted payloads. This issue is fixed in versions 6.3.0 and 7.0.0-alpha03.
Metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness Enumeration
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Update |
|---|---|---|---|
| Squareup | Wire | < 6.3.0 | — |
| Squareup | Wire | 7.0.0 | Alpha01 |
References
- https://github.com/square/wire/pull/3595Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/square/wire/pull/3597Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/square/wire/releases/tag/6.3.0Release Notes
- https://github.com/square/wire/security/advisories/GHSA-7xpr-hc2w-34m9Vendor Advisory, Exploit
- https://github.com/square/wire/security/advisories/GHSA-7xpr-hc2w-34m9Vendor Advisory, Exploit
Timeline
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