anacrolix/torrent through 1.61.0 contains a memory exhaustion vulnerability in the tracker/http package that allows malicious trackers to…
CVE-2026-123096
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.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 7.1 (v4.0)
- Severity
- High
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 5 November 2026
- Last updated
- 5 November 2026
- Assigner
- VulnCheck
CVSS vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
At the source
References
- https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent/pull/1143
- https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent/commit/92ad51490479bb8b94720f964b1c67e5a1d68faa
- https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent/blob/v1.61.0/tracker/http/http.go#L114-L126
- https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/anacrolix-torrent-through-1.61.0-memory-exhaustion-via-unbounded-http-tracker-response
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-123096
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