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Medium · 6.3 CVE-2026-48512 EUVD-2026-38384GHSA-cj9g-3mj2-g8vv

MessagePack-CSharp: JSON conversion APIs can recurse without consistent depth enforcement

Published Jun 22, 2026 · Updated Jun 25, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

MessagePack for C# is a MessagePack serializer for C#. Prior to 2.5.301 and 3.1.7, MessagePack-CSharp's JSON conversion helpers contain multiple recursion paths that do not consistently enforce a depth limit. These paths are in the JSON conversion component rather than normal typed MessagePack deserialization. MessagePackSerializer.ConvertFromJson recursively processes nested JSON arrays and objects in FromJsonCore() without consulting MessagePackSecurity.MaximumObjectGraphDepth. TinyJsonReader.ReadNextToken() recursively consumes comma and colon separator characters, allowing even malformed JSON with long separator runs to consume one stack frame per character. MessagePackSerializer.ConvertToJson applies depth checks to arrays and maps, but the typeless extension branch for ext-100 recursively calls ToJsonCore() without applying MessagePackSecurity.DepthStep(ref reader). Each path can allow attacker-controlled input to exhaust the process stack and trigger an uncatchable StackOverflowException instead of failing with a catchable parse or serialization exception. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.5.301 and 3.1.7.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
MessagePack-CSharp MessagePack-CSharp >= 3.0, < 3.1.7, < 2.5.301 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 python-msgpack No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
NuGet MessagePack < 2.5.301 2.5.301 GHSA-cj9g-3mj2-g8vv
NuGet MessagePack >= 3.0, < 3.1.7 3.1.7 GHSA-cj9g-3mj2-g8vv

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