CVE-2024-7254

25

FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-7254 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Google and NetApp products that utilize Protocol Buffers. It allows an unauthenticated attacker to trigger a denial-of-service condition (stack overflow) by providing specially crafted, deeply nested Protocol Buffers data. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating a high impact on availability with low attack complexity. While there are no known public exploits or Metasploit modules, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, suggesting awareness among researchers.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		< 3.25.5CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:google:protobuf::::::ruby::*
		>= 4.0.0, < 4.27.5CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:google:protobuf::::::ruby::*
		>= 4.28.0, < 4.28.2CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:google:protobuf::::::ruby::*
		< 3.25.5CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:google:protobuf-java::::::::
		>= 4.0.0, < 4.27.5CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:google:protobuf-java::::::::

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

8.7HIGH

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Attack Requirements

NONE

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

VS Confidentiality

NONE

VS Integrity

NONE

VS Availability

HIGH

SS Confidentiality

NONE

SS Integrity

NONE

SS Availability

NONE

Exploit Maturity

NOT_DEFINED

CvssVersion

4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

2.77%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

84.8%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0277 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (49)

autodeskpatch availablevia llm_extracted

freepbxpatch availablevia llm_extracted

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference

honeywellpatch availablevia llm_extracted

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa

Product: com.google.protobuf:protobuf-kotlin-liteFixed in: 4.27.5

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa

Product: com.google.protobuf:protobuf-kotlin-liteFixed in: 4.28.2

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa

Product: com.google.protobuf:protobuf-kotlinFixed in: 4.27.5

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa

Product: com.google.protobuf:protobuf-kotlinFixed in: 4.28.2

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa

Product: com.google.protobuf:protobuf-javaliteFixed in: 4.27.5

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa

Product: com.google.protobuf:protobuf-javaliteFixed in: 4.28.2

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa

Product: com.google.protobuf:protobuf-javaFixed in: 4.27.5

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa

Product: com.google.protobuf:protobuf-javaFixed in: 3.25.5

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa

Product: com.google.protobuf:protobuf-javaFixed in: 4.28.2

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa

Product: com.google.protobuf:protobuf-javaliteFixed in: 3.25.5

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa

Product: com.google.protobuf:protobuf-kotlinFixed in: 3.25.5

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa

Product: com.google.protobuf:protobuf-kotlin-liteFixed in: 3.25.5

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Trusted Profile Analyzer 1.2Fixed in: rhtpa/rhtpa-trustification-service-rhel9:sha256:8c6e51e26ca9a1d4d4fc9e90650103e60360cf0571533c56fbd08dac3007efbe

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4.4.3 for Spring Boot

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4.8 for Spring Boot

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4 for Quarkus 3Fixed in: com.google.protobuf/protobuf-java

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat build of Quarkus 3.2Fixed in: com.google.protobuf/protobuf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat build of Quarkus 3.8Fixed in: com.google.protobuf/protobuf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss EAP XP 5.0 Update 2.0Fixed in: protobuf-java

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 ELS on RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-protostream-0:4.3.7-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 ELS on RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-wildfly-0:7.4.23-5.GA_redhat_00004.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 ELS on RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-protostream-0:4.3.7-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 ELS on RHEL 8Fixed in: eap7-wildfly-0:7.4.23-5.GA_redhat_00004.1.el8eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 ELS on RHEL 9Fixed in: eap7-protostream-0:4.3.7-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el9eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 ELS on RHEL 9Fixed in: eap7-wildfly-0:7.4.23-5.GA_redhat_00004.1.el9eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Streams for Apache Kafka 2.8.0

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Trusted Profile Analyzer 1.2Fixed in: rhtpa/rhtpa-guac-rhel9:sha256:9cc0e1374aa5e6ff8caf86d9bbd6f9c2dfa14d812ad99ae653a2fbb8ec124f30

rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa

Product: google-protobufFixed in: 4.27.5

rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa

Product: google-protobufFixed in: 4.28.2

rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa

Product: google-protobufFixed in: 3.25.5

redhatno patchvia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion PackFixed in: protobuf-java

redhatno patchvia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat build of Apicurio Registry 2Fixed in: com.google.protobuf/protobuf-java

redhatno patchvia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI)Fixed in: rhoai/odh-modelmesh-rhel8

redhatno patchvia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2Fixed in: protobuf

redhatno patchvia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Process Automation 7Fixed in: com.google.protobuf/protobuf-java

redhatno patchvia redhat_api

Product: streams for Apache KafkaFixed in: com.google.protobuf/protobuf-java

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat build of Debezium 2Fixed in: com.google.protobuf/protobuf-java

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI)Fixed in: rhoai/odh-trustyai-service-rhel8

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI)Fixed in: rhelai1/bootc-nvidia-rhel9

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Data Grid 8Fixed in: com.google.protobuf/protobuf-java

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI)Fixed in: rhelai1/instructlab-nvidia-rhel9

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Fuse 7Fixed in: com.google.protobuf/protobuf-java

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Integration Camel K 1Fixed in: com.google.protobuf/protobuf-java

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat AMQ Broker 7Fixed in: com.google.protobuf/protobuf-java

Vendor Advisories (6)

honeywellllm-honeywell-c82b5cfda9df97a3CRITICAL

HP ThinPro 8.1 SP8 Security Updates

autodeskllm-autodesk-c365b674a2ff5a3aCRITICAL

HP ThinPro 8.1 SP8 Security Updates

freepbxllm-freepbx-e54908c7967265f6CRITICAL

HP ThinPro 8.1 SP8 Security Updates

mavenGHSA-735f-pc8j-v9w8high

protobuf-java has potential Denial of Service issue

redhatCVE-2024-7254Important

protobuf: StackOverflow vulnerability in Protocol Buffers

microsoft2024-Sep/CVE-2024-7254

Stack overflow in Protocol Buffers Java Lite

References

security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20241213-0010

Third Party Advisory

security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20250418-0006

Third Party Advisory

github.com / protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/cc8b3483a5584b3301e3d43d17eb59704857ffaa

Patch