pterodactyl/wings · Security
Wings: Maliciously or erroneously created parsed config files can cause wings process to OOM
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-q6hh-gp44-4hcm
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-52857
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 5.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 5.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
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.
CWEs
- CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
- CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
- CWE-789 · Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value