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GHSA-Q6HH-GP44-4HCM

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-07-31 16:10 – Updated: 2026-07-31 16:15

Summary

Wings: Maliciously or erroneously created parsed config files can cause wings process to OOM

Details

Summary

Config file parsers, json, yaml, xml etc in parser.go have no file size limit/checks, allowing for a giant config file to potentially OOM the wings process.

Impact

All wings users who have an egg with a non-file parser configuration file setting.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


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

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  "modified": "2026-07-31T16:15:33Z",
  "published": "2026-07-31T16:10:57Z",
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}

CVE-2026-52857 (GCVE-0-2026-52857)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-31 16:09 – Updated: 2026-07-31 16:16

Title

Wings: Maliciously or erroneously created parsed config files can cause wings process to OOM

Summary

Wings is the server control plane for Pterodactyl, a free, open-source game server management panel. Prior to 1.13.0, unbounded json, yaml, and xml configuration-file parsers in parser.go can process an oversized non-file parser configuration file and exhaust Wings process memory. This issue is fixed in version 1.13.0.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-07-31 16:16 UTC

CWE

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/pterodactyl/wings/security/adv…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/pterodactyl/wings/commit/5f71f…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/pterodactyl/wings/releases/tag…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
pterodactyl	wings	Affected: < 1.13.0

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