CVE-2026-52857

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

Published Jul 31, 2026 CVSS 3.1 · 5.5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-q6hh-gp44-4hcm Wings: Maliciously or erroneously created parsed config files can cause wings process to OOM
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Pterodactyl
Pterodactyl wings
Vendors & Products Pterodactyl
Pterodactyl wings
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
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.
Title Wings: Maliciously or erroneously created parsed config files can cause wings process to OOM
Weaknesses CWE-400
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Jul 31, 2026, 4:16 PM
Reserved
Jun 8, 2026, 6:41 PM
Status
Deferred
Published
Jul 31, 2026, 4:17 PM
Modified
Oct 23, 2026, 11:10 PM