CVE-2026-48516: medium-severity vulnerability in MessagePack-CSharp
MessagePack-CSharp: InterfaceLookupFormatter bypasses collision-resistant comparer settings
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6.3epss 0.4%
exploitation probability
0.4%top 67% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
MessagePack for C# is a MessagePack serializer for C#. Prior to 2.5.301 and 3.1.7, InterfaceLookupFormatter<TKey,TElement> constructs an internal Dictionary<TKey, IGrouping<TKey,TElement>> with the default equality comparer instead of the security-aware comparer supplied by options.Security.GetEqualityComparer<TKey>(). This formatter omission allows hash-collision CPU denial of service against ILookup<TKey,TElement> even when the application has opted into the untrusted-data security posture This vulnerability is fixed in 2.5.301 and 3.1.7.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
MessagePack-CSharp · MessagePack-CSharpRelated CVEs — MessagePack-CSharp
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