CVE-2026-43506

high

Published 2026-05-01 · Modified 2026-05-01

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CVSS v3

7.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

An issue was discovered in Prosody before 0.12.6 and 1.0.0 through 13.0.0 before 13.0.5. A Denial of Service can occur via memory exhaustion caused by memory leaks from unauthenticated connections.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

83%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Debian Mixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`13.0.1-1+deb131u`
sid	Fixed	`13.0.5-1`
forky	Fixed	`13.0.5-1`
bullseye	Affected	—
bookworm	Fixed	`0.12.3-1+deb12u1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
prosody	prosody	`{"endExcluding":"0.12.6"}`	`0.12.6`

References

CWEs

CWE-401

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.