CVE-2026-43506 (GCVE-0-2026-43506)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-01 14:45 – Updated: 2026-05-01 15:23
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
An issue was discovered in Prosody before 0.12.6 and 1.0.0 through 13.0.0 before 13.0.5. A Denial of Service can occur via memory exhaustion caused by memory leaks from unauthenticated connections.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-05-01 15:22 UTC
CWE
- CWE-401 - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
Assigner
References
Impacted products
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