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🛡️ CVE-2026-52857 — wings

🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-400 NVD
5.5
CVSS Score
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Description

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

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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-52857 is classified as CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. A request can consume memory, CPU or storage without limit, exhausting capacity for everyone else.

Affected software

CVE-2026-52857 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • github.com/pterodactyl/wings
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 18 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com (Advisory)
github.com (Fix)
github.com (Web)

Other advisories for this package

github.com/pterodactyl/wings has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption) in other software:

Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-400
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-08-18
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-18

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
github.com/pterodactyl/wings — —
unknown — —

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