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Vulnerability record/PUBLISHED/Published Nov 11, 2026 18:10:54 UTC

CVE-2026-123828

A one-byte heap buffer overflow in Node.js HTTP/2 Alt-Svc handling lets a remote, unauthenticated attacker corrupt process memory. When an application passes an attacker-controlled value such as a request's :authority header to Http2Session.altsvc(), the AltSvc implementation in src/node_http2.cc allocates a buffer sized to the origin length and then writes it with a null terminator, placing one byte past the end of the allocation. A single request carrying a long but syntactically valid :authority triggers the out-of-bounds write, which aborts the process and serves as a remote heap-corruption primitive. This vulnerability affects Node.js 26.x and 24.x.

Base score5.9/ 10
SeverityMediumCVSS 3.0

Exploitability / impact

CVSS metric breakdown

Vector-derived attributes
Base severityMedium
Attack vectorNetworkAV
Attack complexityHighAC
Privileges requiredNonePR
User interactionNoneUI
ScopeUnchangedS
Confidentiality impactNoneC
Integrity impactNoneI
Availability impactHighA
CVSS vector stringCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Record context

CVE Numbering Authorityopenjs
Last updatedNov 11, 2026 18:10:54 UTC
PublishedNov 11, 2026 18:10:54 UTC
ReservedNov 6, 2026 16:02:55 UTC

Credits

  • zonduu
  • mcollina
  • UlisesGascon
  • pimterry
  • aduh95