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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-1941"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2022-09-22T00:00:00.000Z"
updatedAt: "2024-08-03T00:24:42.594Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:36.661Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-1941"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-1941.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-1941"
title: "Out of Memory issue in ProtocolBuffers for cpp and python"
summary: "A parsing vulnerability for the MessageSet type in the ProtocolBuffers versions prior to and including 3.16.1, 3.17.3, 3.18.2, 3.19.4, 3.20.1 and 3.21.5 for protobuf-cpp, and versions prior to and including 3.16.1, 3.17.3, 3.18.2, 3.19.4, 3.20.1 and 4.21.5 for protobuf-python can lead to out of memory failures. A specially crafted message with multiple key-value per elements creates parsing issues, and can lead to a Denial of Service against services receiving unsanitized input. We recommend upgrading to versions 3.18.3, 3.19.5, 3.20.2, 3.21.6 for protobuf-cpp and 3.18.3, 3.19.5, 3.20.2, 4.21.6 for protobuf-python. Versions for 3.16 and 3.17 are no longer updated."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"unspecified","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThanOrEqual":"3.16.1"},{"version":"unspecified","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThanOrEqual":"3.17.3"},{"version":"unspecified","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThanOrEqual":"3.18.2"},{"version":"unspecified","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThanOrEqual":"3.19.4"},{"version":"unspecified","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThanOrEqual":"3.20.1"},{"version":"unspecified","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThanOrEqual":"3.21.5"}],"vendor":"Google LLC","product":"protobuf-cpp"},{"versions":[{"version":"unspecified","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThanOrEqual":"3.16.1"},{"version":"unspecified","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThanOrEqual":"3.17.3"},{"version":"unspecified","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThanOrEqual":"3.18.2"},{"version":"unspecified","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThanOrEqual":"3.19.4"},{"version":"unspecified","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThanOrEqual":"3.20.1"},{"version":"unspecified","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThanOrEqual":"4.21.5"}],"vendor":"Google LLC","product":"protobuf-python"}]

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