The protobuf version that this project relies on has security issues and it is recommended to upgrade.

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Description

We used gin v1.9.1 in our project and were reported by colleagues in charge of security that our project had audit vulnerabilities.
Scan tool: dependency-track

We do not use google.golang.org/protobuf in our project, but it indirectly depends on google.golang.org/protobuf through gin v1.9.1
After looking through the master branch of the project, the protobuf version that the project currently relies on is v1.30.0, and it is recommended to upgrade. Because it currently has the following problems

Overview
protobuf allows remote authenticated attackers to cause a heap-based buffer overflow.
Weakness
CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write
References
protocolbuffers/protobuf#760
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1256426
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/27/2
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Environment

• go version:1.21.3
• gin version (or commit ref):v1.9.1
• operating system: windows / centos

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