protobufjs compiles protobuf definitions into JavaScript (JS) functions. Prior to 7.6.5 and 8.6.6, protobufjs parsed option names by advancing through schema tokens until reaching an = token without checking for end of input, so a crafted .proto schema that opens an option declaration and ends prematurely can cause parse, Root.load, or Root.loadSync to loop indefinitely. This issue is fixed in versions 7.6.5 and 8.6.6.
CVE-2026-59877
“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.
This high-severity CVE scores 7.5 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.4% (30th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). GitHub Security Advisory CVSS 5.3 is lower than this score; a lower GitHub score revises it only when its advisory is newer than the CVE record's last change, and this advisory (published 2026-07-20) is not newer than that change (2026-10-25), so it does not.
Also known asEUVD-2026-42310 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-j3f2-48v5-ccww (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 7.5HIGHmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 49EG Risk 49/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity75% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.5 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation0.4% × 40%FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.Automatability100% × 15%CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high. - EPSS PROB
- 0.4%
- EPSS %ILE
- 30th
- KEV
- Not listed
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (7.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS v3 · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
- EG Likelihood
- 0.4% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
Published
July 8, 2026
Last Modified
October 25, 2026
Advisory Details (6)
Auto-updated Jul 8, 2026Denial of Service via infinite loop in .proto option parsing · Advisory · protobufjs/protobuf.js · GitHub
https://github.com/protobufjs/protobuf.js/security/advisories/GHSA-j3f2-48v5-ccwwprotobufjs: v8.6.6
Patch available: protobufjs/protobuf.js protobufjs-v8.6.6
https://github.com/protobufjs/protobuf.js/releases/tag/protobufjs-v8.6.6protobufjs: v7.6.5
Patch available: protobufjs/protobuf.js protobufjs-v7.6.5
https://github.com/protobufjs/protobuf.js/releases/tag/protobufjs-v7.6.5fix: handle EOF during options parsing
Patch available: protobufjs/protobuf.js protobufjs-cli-v2.5.7 (PR #2352 merged 2026-07-03)
https://github.com/protobufjs/protobuf.js/pull/2352commit fa5c73add738 (protobufjs/protobuf.js)
Patch available: protobufjs/protobuf.js protobufjs-cli-v2.5.7 (contains commit fa5c73add738)
https://github.com/protobufjs/protobuf.js/commit/fa5c73add738ceb471e74da8cc2f3727c3d0a69fcommit 10fba6d54815 (protobufjs/protobuf.js)
Patch available: protobufjs/protobuf.js protobufjs-v7.6.5 (contains commit 10fba6d54815)
https://github.com/protobufjs/protobuf.js/commit/10fba6d54815ceecca8a06b9a6db490c8f5d2217Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-59877(16)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2026:71179Red Hat Product SecurityCritical
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 Container Release Update
- RHSA-2026:68333Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat build of Cryostat security update
- RHSA-2026:67279Red Hat Product SecurityCritical
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 Container Release Update
- RHSA-2026:62260Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.30.0 Release.
- RHSA-2026:60477Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.21.31 bug fix and security update
- RHSA-2026:57365Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.22.11 bug fix and security update
- RHSA-2026:57590Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: rh-podman-desktop security, bug fix, and enhancement update
- RHSA-2026:52768Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Developer Hub 1.9.8 release.
- +8 more
Patch Availability(17)
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(1 across 1 ecosystem)
npm(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| protobufjs | — |
| — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 12× in last 7d / 47× in last 30d)
Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
Showing the most recent 100 of 256 refreshes on record for this CVE.
A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 156 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.
- 2026-11-01 19:22 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-11-01 19:22 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-11-01 19:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j3f2-48v5-ccww · GitHub severity MODERATE · GitHub CVSS 5.3
- 2026-11-01 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 30th percentile
- 2026-11-01 07:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-j3f2-48v5-ccww · GitHub severity MODERATE · GitHub CVSS 5.3
- 2026-11-01 07:42 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-31 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 30th percentile
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- 2026-10-25 17:28 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-25 17:28 UTCVendor advisory
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- 2026-10-20 18:57 UTCVendor advisory
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- 2026-10-01 16:12 UTCVendor advisory
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