NATS-Server is a High-Performance server for NATS.io, a cloud and edge native messaging system. Prior to versions 2.11.15 and 2.12.6, a malicious client which can connect to the WebSockets port can c…
Summary
NATS-Server is a High-Performance server for NATS.io, a cloud and edge native messaging system. Prior to versions 2.11.15 and 2.12.6, a malicious client which can connect to the WebSockets port can cause unbounded memory use in the nats-server before authentication; this requires sending a corresponding amount of data. This is a milder variant of CVE-2026-27571. That earlier issue was a compression bomb, this vulnerability is not. Attacks against this new issue thus require significant client b…
In-depth triage · Auto channel
No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).
Affected products
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Lint boundary warnings (2)
The following non-blocking warnings were raised during the lint phase of this triage (e.g. reference URLs not yet on the allowlist). They do not affect entry usability and are disclosed for transparency (see DR-002).
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REF_URL_NOT_ALLOWLISTEDurl not in allowlist: https://advisories.nats.io/CVE/secnote-2026-02.txt -
REF_URL_NOT_ALLOWLISTEDurl not in allowlist: https://advisories.nats.io/CVE/secnote-2026-11.txt
Sources
- NVD DATABASE
Original Links
- https://advisories.nats.io/CVE/secnote-2026-02.txt Mitigation
- https://advisories.nats.io/CVE/secnote-2026-11.txt Mitigation
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qrvq-68c2-7grw Mitigation
- https://github.com/nats-io/nats-server/security/advisories/GHSA-8r68-gvr4-jh7j Mitigation
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:21769
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:22347
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:23345
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-33219
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2451445
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-33219.json
Timeline
- nvd_ingest NVD