# CVE-2026-42241: ParquetSharp: Possible Stack Overflow When Reading a ParquetFile with Large Decimal Type Width

- Also known as: GHSA-RRJR-V56M-WW88
- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 23.0.0.1
- Published: 2026-05-07 · Updated: 2026-05-08

## Affected

- G-Research ParquetSharp: from 18.1.0, fixed in 23.0.0.1
- ParquetSharp (NuGet): from 18.1.0, fixed in 23.0.0.1

## Description

ParquetSharp is a .NET library for reading and writing Apache Parquet files. From version 18.1.0 to before version 23.0.0.1, DecimalConverter.ReadDecimal makes a stackalloc using what might be an attacker-supplied value. If an attacker declares a decimal column with some unreasonable width, this could lead to a stack overflow. In a service environment, this would potentially take down a service. This affects applications using ParquetSharp to read untrusted Parquet files in a network service. This issue has been patched in version 23.0.0.1.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on G-Research ParquetSharp, ParquetSharp, upgrade to a fixed version (23.0.0.1) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/G-Research/ParquetSharp/security/advisories/GHSA-rrjr-v56m-ww88
- https://github.com/G-Research/ParquetSharp/releases/tag/23.0.0.1

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