GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go

GHSA-q6hh-gp44-4hcm Wings: Maliciously or erroneously created parsed config files can cause wings process to OOM

MEDIUM Published 2026-07-31 Modified 2026-07-31 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2026-52857
Ecosystem
Go
Packages
github.com/pterodactyl/wings
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-400, CWE-770, CWE-789
Reviewed
2026-07-31

Affected packages

• Go github.com/pterodactyl/wings: < 1.13.0 → fixed in 1.13.0

Description

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.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2026-52857 Wings is the server control plane for Pterodactyl, a free, open-source game server management panel. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (3)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness
  • CWE-789 Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value weakness

References