Wings: Maliciously or erroneously created parsed config files can cause wings process to OOM

Description

Wings is the server control plane for Pterodactyl, a free, open-source game server management panel. Prior to 1.13.0, unbounded json, yaml, and xml configuration-file parsers in parser.go can process an oversized non-file parser configuration file and exhaust Wings process memory. This issue is fixed in version 1.13.0.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.16% · top 95% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.

Weakness

• CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-400 and its CVEs

Affected products

• pterodactyl · wings

  • affected < 1.13.0

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

• Gogithub.com/pterodactyl/wingsGHSA-q6hh-gp44-4hcm (opens in a new tab)

References (3)

• https://github.com/pterodactyl/wings/security/advisories/GHSA-q6hh-gp44-4hcm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM
• https://github.com/pterodactyl/wings/commit/5f71f65711b6b9e6f913bec94a7b36d9a5eaae49 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
• https://github.com/pterodactyl/wings/releases/tag/v1.13.0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisory GHSA-q6hh-gp44-4hcm (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2026-52857](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2026-52857.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2026-52857)

Record last updated 31 Jul 2026, 16:16 UTC.