CVE-2026-43981
highpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.002 · 8 %ileEUEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
Algernon is a small self-contained pure-Go web server. Prior to 1.17.6, in engine/luahandler.go, the sync.RWMutex protecting LoadCommonFunctions is released before L.Push() and L.PCall() execute. Since gopher-lua's LState is explicitly not goroutine-safe, concurrent requests race on the shared state causing Lua VM corruption. The Go race detector confirms this immediately under modest concurrency (ab -n 1000 -c 100). This vulnerability is fixed in 1.17.6.
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 4.6–8.2
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affected products (1)
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references (7)
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- https://github.com/xyproto/algernon/issues/172cnnvd
- https://github.com/xyproto/algernon/releasesPatchcnnvd
- https://github.com/xyproto/algernon/security/advisories/GHSA-rr2f-4wrm-h6rgcnnvd
- https://github.com/xyproto/algernon/issues/172enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/xyproto/algernon/security/advisories/GHSA-rr2f-4wrm-h6rgenisa_euvd
- https://github.com/xyproto/algernon/issues/172nvd
- https://github.com/xyproto/algernon/security/advisories/GHSA-rr2f-4wrm-h6rgnvd
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