CVE-2026-52857
mediumpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.002 · 5 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
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affected products (2)
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advisories (2)
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- GHSA-q6hh-gp44-4hcmWings: Maliciously or erroneously created parsed config files can cause wings process to OOM2026-07-31ghsa · osvUS
### 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.
- GO-2026-6159Wings: Maliciously or erroneously created parsed config files can cause wings process to OOM in github.com/pterodactyl/wings2026-08-18vendor · osvUS
Wings: Maliciously or erroneously created parsed config files can cause wings process to OOM in github.com/pterodactyl/wings
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references (10)
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- https://github.com/pterodactyl/wings/commit/5f71f65711b6b9e6f913bec94a7b36d9a5eaae49cnnvd
- https://github.com/pterodactyl/wings/releasesPatchcnnvd
- https://github.com/pterodactyl/wings/releases/tag/v1.13.0cnnvd
- https://github.com/pterodactyl/wings/security/advisories/GHSA-q6hh-gp44-4hcmcnnvd
- https://github.com/pterodactyl/wings/commit/5f71f65711b6b9e6f913bec94a7b36d9a5eaae49enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/pterodactyl/wings/releases/tag/v1.13.0enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/pterodactyl/wings/security/advisories/GHSA-q6hh-gp44-4hcmenisa_euvd
- https://github.com/pterodactyl/wings/commit/5f71f65711b6b9e6f913bec94a7b36d9a5eaae49nvd
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