CVE-2026-61695

high

Description

Wire provides gRPC and protocol buffers for Android, Kotlin, Swift, and Java. Prior to 6.4.1 and 7.0.0-alpha04, Wire's Swift runtime ProtoReader.skipGroup(expectedEndTag:unknownFieldsWriter:) accepts a negative length for a LENGTH_DELIMITED field inside an unknown START_GROUP field. ProtoReader.readData() forwards the negative count to ReadBuffer.readData(count:), whose upper-bound-only check permits the value to reach Foundation Data(bytes:count:) and trigger an unrecoverable process trap instead of a catchable ProtoDecoder.Error. Any Swift process decoding untrusted protobuf bytes can be crashed without authentication, user interaction, or knowledge of the target schema. This issue is fixed in versions 6.4.1 and 7.0.0-alpha04.

References

https://github.com/square/wire/security/advisories/GHSA-86wm-r4c5-2rc9

https://github.com/square/wire/releases/tag/7.0.0-alpha04

https://github.com/square/wire/releases/tag/6.4.1

https://github.com/square/wire/pull/3616

https://github.com/square/wire/commit/81ff7f24a6795d9a8be2e03f272b2d979a5d2c7e

https://github.com/square/wire/commit/24043b6b3a5e5974a978f2745b76d50b31407c1c

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-23

Updated: 2026-09-23

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0058