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CVE-2026-123096

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.5 Published: 2026-11-05 Modified: 2026-11-05

Description

anacrolix/torrent through 1.61.0 contains a memory exhaustion vulnerability in the tracker/http package that allows malicious trackers to crash clients by returning unbounded responses. Attackers controlling an HTTP tracker in a torrent file or magnet link can return huge or gzip-compressed announce or scrape responses that Client.Announce and Client.Scrape buffer without limits, exhausting process memory.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-770

References