NPM: protobufjs: Denial of Service via unbounded recursive JSON descriptor expansion

NPM: protobufjs: Denial of Service via unbounded recursive JSON descriptor expansion vulnerability discovered by ? in WordPress Npm protobufjs versions = 7.5.7...

Uncontrolled Recursion

Overview protobufjs is a protocol buffer for JavaScript & TypeScript. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Recursion through the Root.fromJSON or Namespace.addJSON functions. An attacker can cause resource exhaustion and disrupt service availability by submitting a...

CVE-2026-45740 protobufjs: Denial of Service via unbounded recursive JSON descriptor expansion

protobufjs compiles protobuf definitions into JavaScript JS functions. Prior to 7.5.8 and 8.2.0, protobufjs could recurse without a depth limit while expanding nested JSON descriptors through Root.fromJSON and Namespace.addJSON. A crafted JSON descriptor with deeply nested namespace definitions...