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CVE-2026-0994

CVE-2026-0994 — Denial of Service in Python Protobuf

A denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability exists in google.protobuf.json_format.ParseDict() in Python, where the max_recursion_depth limit can be bypassed when parsing nested google.protobuf.Any messages. Due to missing recursion depth accounting inside the internal Any-handling logic, an attacker can supply deeply nested Any structures that bypass the intended recursion limit, eventually exhausting Python’s recursion stack and causing a RecursionError.

Published Updated Sources: cvelistV5, Google

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.

Exploitation

Exploit code

public exploit, none observed

EPSS

1%

chance of exploitation in 30 days

Affects

python

17 products listed

CVSS base

7.5

HIGH

CISA SSVC assessment

Three decision points CISA publishes for the CVEs it assesses · SSVC 2.0.3. A stakeholder decision, not a severity score.

CISA

Exploitation

None

none · proof-of-concept · active

Automatable

Yes

can an attacker script all four kill-chain steps

Technical impact

Partial

partial · total control of the vulnerable component

Affected scope

The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.

Vendors (2)

pythonredhat

Products (17)

protobufred hat ansible automation platform 2 5 for rhel 8red hat ansible automation platform 2 5 for rhel 9red hat ansible automation platform 2 6 for rhel 9red hat enterprise linux 10red hat enterprise linux 10 0 extended update supportred hat enterprise linux 9red hat enterprise linux 9 0 update services for sap solutionsred hat enterprise linux 9 2 update services for sap solutionsred hat enterprise linux 9 4 extended update supportred hat enterprise linux 9 6 extended update supportred hat ai inference server 3 2red hat ai inference server 3 3red hat amq clientsred hat ansible automation platform 2red hat hardened imagesred hat openstack platform 16 2

Every base score collected

Sources score independently and disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.

ScoreVersionSeverityExpl.ImpactSource
7.5CVSS 3.1HIGH——cvelistV5

Weakness & attack patterns

  • CWE-674

Public exploit

Capability, not use: code existing is a different claim from anyone running it.

Indexed by

poc in github

References

21 on the record

Elsewhere on this site

  • pythonevery CVE for this vendor
  • redhatevery CVE for this vendor
  • CWE-674other pages naming this weakness

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

  • No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
  • No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
  • No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.