CVE-2026-52857Wings: Maliciously or erroneously created parsed config files can cause wings process to OOM
- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.16%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 95% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 53 days later
· 53 days later
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.16% · top 95% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
- affected < 1.13.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/pterodactyl/wingsGHSA-q6hh-gp44-4hcm (opens in a new tab)
References
References3
- https://github.com/pterodactyl/wings/security/advisories/GHSA-q6hh-gp44-4hcm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/pterodactyl/wings/commit/5f71f65711b6b9e6f913bec94a7b36d9a5eaae49 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/pterodactyl/wings/releases/tag/v1.13.0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-51567 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-q6hh-gp44-4hcm (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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