Security Advisory

CVE-2026-44294

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-05-13 14:44:30
Last updated 2026-05-13 18:34:31
Assigner GitHub_M
CVSS score 5.3
State PUBLISHED

Description

protobufjs compiles protobuf definitions into JavaScript (JS) functions. Prior to 7.5.6 and 8.0.2, protobufjs generated JavaScript property accessors from schema-controlled field and oneof names. Certain control characters in field names were not escaped before being embedded into generated function bodies. A crafted schema or JSON descriptor could therefore cause generated encode, decode, verify, or conversion functions to fail during compilation. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.5.6 and 8.0.2.