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GHSA-4JVC-H3X3-W6QJ

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-11 09:32 – Updated: 2026-08-11 12:30

Details

A flaw was found in iperf3. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted control-channel JSON with oversized numeric parameters, such as parallel and len, which are not properly validated by the server. This improper input validation can lead to excessive stream and thread creation, as well as large buffer allocations, causing resource exhaustion. Consequently, this can result in a Denial of Service (DoS) on the affected iperf3 server.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2026-71217 (GCVE-0-2026-71217)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-11 08:50 – Updated: 2026-08-11 16:11

Title

Iperf3: iperf3 server accepts unbounded peer-controlled json parameters enabling remote denial of service via resource exhaustion

Summary

A flaw was found in iperf3. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted control-channel JSON with oversized numeric parameters, such as `parallel` and `len`, which are not properly validated by the server. This improper input validation can lead to excessive stream and thread creation, as well as large buffer allocations, causing resource exhaustion. Consequently, this can result in a Denial of Service (DoS) on the affected iperf3 server.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)

CWE

CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation

Assigner

redhat

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-71217	vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2460984	issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
https://github.com/esnet/iperf/commit/494dd377eca…

Impacted products

4 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

Date Public

2026-08-11 08:13

Credits

This issue was discovered by Found by AISLE in partnership with Red Hat.

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