CVE-2026-58250 (GCVE-0-2026-58250)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-08 19:48 – Updated: 2026-07-09 13:33
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
NATS Server: Pre-auth server crash via double INFO in leafnode handshake
Summary
NATS Server is a high-performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system. Prior to 2.12.8 and 2.11.17, an unauthenticated peer with network access to a leafnode listener with compression enabled could crash the server during the pre-authentication leafnode handshake by sending repeated leafnode INFO protocol messages before authentication and account setup completed. This issue is fixed in versions 2.12.8 and 2.11.17.
Severity
7.5 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
5 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/nats-io/nats-server/security/a… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/nats-io/nats-server/commit/8dc… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/nats-io/nats-server/commit/fc5… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/nats-io/nats-server/releases/t… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/nats-io/nats-server/releases/t… | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nats-io | nats-server |
Affected:
< 2.11.17
Affected: >= 2.12.0-preview.1, < 2.12.8 |
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