HashiCorp memberlist before version 0.6.0 is vulnerable to a denial-of-service issue in its push/pull state handling that may allow an attacker with network access to the gossip port to exhaust memory on a receiving node and cause the process to terminate. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-14362) is fixed in memberlist 0.6.0.
CVE-2026-14362
Score 4.9 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-07-08. a secondary CVSS source baseline 4.9; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 4.9
- EG Score
- 4.9(high)
- EPSS
- 16.4%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 8, 2026
Last Modified
July 9, 2026
Advisory Details (1)
Auto-updated Jul 8, 2026HCSEC-2026-18 - Memberlist vulnerable to denial of service via gossip message - Security - HashiCorp Discuss
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-18-memberlist-vulnerable-to-denial-of-service-via-gossip-message/77556Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-14362(2)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 14× in last 7d / 14× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-07-13 06:12 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-12 13:12 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-12 13:11 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-12 05:46 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-11 14:17 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-11 14:17 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-11 08:27 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-10 15:20 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-10 15:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-09 19:10 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-09 16:22 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-09 16:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-08 17:29 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-08 17:29 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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