GHSA-xhrq-2ff6-99r3HighCVSS 6.5
anacrolix/torrent through 1.61.0 contains a memory exhaustion vulnerability in the tracker/http...
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
anacrolix/torrent through 1.61.0 contains a memory exhaustion vulnerability in the tracker/http package that allows malicious trackers to crash clients by returning unbounded responses. Attackers controlling an HTTP tracker in a torrent file or magnet link can return huge or gzip-compressed announce or scrape responses that Client.Announce and Client.Scrape buffer without limits, exhausting process memory.
🔗 References (7)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-123096
- https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent/pull/1143
- https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent/commit/92ad51490479bb8b94720f964b1c67e5a1d68faa
- https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent
- https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent/blob/v1.61.0/tracker/http/http.go#L114-L126
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/anacrolix-torrent-through-1.61.0-memory-exhaustion-via-unbounded-http-tracker-response
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xhrq-2ff6-99r3