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CVE-2026-52857

Go · github.com/pterodactyl/wings

Summary

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

Severity
medium
CVSS
5.5
EPSS
0.2% (p5)
CWE
CWE-400, CWE-770, CWE-789
Also known as
GHSA-q6hh-gp44-4hcm
Published
2026-07-31
Updated
2026-07-31

Advisory 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.

References

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