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Vulnerability record · CVE-2026-11946 · published 2 July 2026

CVE-2026-11946: Allocation without limits vulnerability

An unauthenticated remote attacker can exhaust server memory via the GetEndpoints Discovery Service in open62541. The endpointUrl field of GetEndpointsRequest is not validated for length. An attacker can declare an arbitrarily large string (up to ~4.09 GB via the UInt32 length field) delivered across intermediate chunks without ever sending the final chunk. The server buffers all chunks in RAM indefinitely until the SecureChannel times out. The attack is pre-session and bypasses all encryption configurations. The issue affects open62541: from 1.4.0 through 1.4.16, from 1.5.0 through 1.5.4, master.

7.5 CVSS 3.1 High EPSS 0.52% · top 57.8% CWE-770 · Allocation without limitsCWE-789 · CWE-789 Awaiting Analysis
7.5CVSS 3.1 base score
0.52%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
0Affected product versions listed by NVD
3References
2 Jul 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

An unauthenticated remote attacker can exhaust server memory via the GetEndpoints Discovery Service in open62541. The endpointUrl field of GetEndpointsRequest is not validated for length. An attacker can declare an arbitrarily large string (up to ~4.09 GB via the UInt32 length field) delivered across intermediate chunks without ever sending the final chunk. The server buffers all chunks in RAM indefinitely until the SecureChannel times out. The attack is pre-session and bypasses all encryption configurations. The issue affects open62541: from 1.4.0 through 1.4.16, from 1.5.0 through 1.5.4, master.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

LinkTags
https://github.com/open62541/open62541
https://github.com/open62541/open62541/pull/8142
https://github.com/open62541/open62541/pull/8142/changes/d253818d6c5e870e1db0e360b18138c8bdc809ae

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2026-11946), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-27). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.