CVE-2026-103471
restbed through 5.0.0 buffers HTTP request headers without enforcing a maximum size limit, allowing remote unauthenticated attackers to exhaust server memory.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.55%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
restbed through 5.0.0 buffers HTTP request headers without enforcing a maximum size limit, allowing remote unauthenticated attackers to exhaust server memory. Attackers can open TCP connections and stream bytes indefinitely without sending the header delimiter, forcing the server to allocate unbounded heap memory until the process is killed.
- CVSS 4.0
- 8.7 HIGHCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
- EPSS
- 0.55% probability · 46th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-770
- Source
- disclosure@vulncheck.com
EPSS moved from 0.8% on 1 October 2026 to 0.6% on 26 October 2026.
References
- https://github.com/Corvusoft/restbed
- https://github.com/Corvusoft/restbed/blob/e1227a297ce6d4e9f78222456507b29bb8ab77e9/src/corvusoft/restbed/detail/service_impl.cpp#L554
- https://github.com/Corvusoft/restbed/blob/e1227a297ce6d4e9f78222456507b29bb8ab77e9/src/corvusoft/restbed/session.cpp#L200
- https://github.com/Corvusoft/restbed/issues/558
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/restbed-through-5.0.0-denial-of-service-via-unbounded-header-buffering
- https://github.com/Corvusoft/restbed/issues/558
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.