Wire has Uncontrolled Recursion on Nested Groups

MEDIUM 5.8CVE-2024-58103 · GHSA-pwf9-q62p-v7wc · Published 16/03/2025 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2024-58103 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.8) vulnerability affecting com.squareup.wire:wire-runtime.
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.45%, higher than 39.1% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 5.2.0 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
com.squareup.wire:wire-runtime Maven	`< 5.2.0`	`5.2.0`

Square Wire before 5.2.0 does not enforce a recursion limit on nested groups in ByteArrayProtoReader32.kt and ProtoReader.kt.

NVD description

Square Wire before 5.2.0 does not enforce a recursion limit on nested groups in ByteArrayProtoReader32.kt and ProtoReader.kt.

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