CVE intelligence

CVE-2026-89418

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Sep 17, 2026Sources checked Sep 27, 2026

8.7HIGHCVSS out of 10

What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2026-89418 and is rated High severity with a CVSS score of 8.7. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSS0.3%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is CVE-2026-89418?

google-protobuf contains an unbounded recursion when parsing unknown protobuf group fields. An attacker can send a small crafted payload of deeply nested START_GROUP wire bytes to any Node.js service that calls the generated deserializeBinary() API, causing a RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded and crashing the process. No authentication or prior knowledge of the schema is required.