CVE-2026-123096
Full vulnerability record from the local CVENow database.
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.
Severity
HIGH
CVSS score
7.1
(v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Received
Source identifier
Published
2026-11-05 16:17:46.760000
Last modified
2026-11-05 16:17:46.760000
View original CVE JSON
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"sourceIdentifier": "[email protected]",
"published": "2026-11-05T16:17:46.760",
"lastModified": "2026-11-05T16:17:46.760",
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}
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"source": "[email protected]",
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"source": "[email protected]"
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"url": "https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent/blob/v1.61.0/tracker/http/http.go#L114-L126",
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