CVE-2026-45799
Published:July 17, 2026
Updated:July 21, 2026
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.
Affected Packages
https://github.com/square/wire.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=parent-3.0.0-rc02 <6.3.0Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 6.3.0com.squareup.wire:wire-runtime (JAVA):
Affected version(s) >=1.0.0 <6.3.0Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 6.3.0com.squareup.wire:wire-runtime (JAVA):
Affected version(s) >=7.0.0-alpha01 <7.0.0-alpha03Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 7.0.0-alpha03com.squareup.wire:wire-runtime (JAVA):
Affected version(s) >=1.0.0 <6.3.0Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 6.3.0Related Resources (8)
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Contact UsCVSS v4
Base Score:
8.7
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
NONE
Vulnerable System Integrity
NONE
Vulnerable System Availability
HIGH
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
7.5
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Weakness Type (CWE)
Improper Validation of Array Index
EPSS
Base Score:
0.50