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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-109924

🗓️ 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
nessus
 nessus
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Malicious Server-Sent Events peer can exhaust process memory in undici EventSource client.

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circl
Circl
CVE-2026-109924
15 Oct 202618:28
–circl
cve
CVE
CVE-2026-109924
15 Oct 202618:16
–cve
cvelist
Cvelist
CVE-2026-109924 undici vulnerable to Denial of Service via unbounded memory in the EventSource parser
15 Oct 202618:16
–cvelist
debiancve
Debian CVE
CVE-2026-109924
15 Oct 202618:16
–debiancve
euvd
EUVD
EUVD-2026-102249
15 Oct 202618:16
–euvd
mend
Mend
CVE-2026-109924
15 Oct 202618:16
–mend
nvd
NVD
CVE-2026-109924
15 Oct 202619:17
–nvd
osv_debian
osv_debian
DEBIAN-CVE-2026-109924
15 Oct 202619:17
–osv_debian
osv_ubuntu
osv_ubuntu
UBUNTU-CVE-2026-109924
16 Oct 202600:00
–osv_ubuntu
ptsecurity
Positive Technologies
PT-2026-115101
15 Oct 202600:00
–ptsecurity
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  - undici is an HTTP client library for Node.js. In versions 6.5.0 through 6.29.0, 7.0.0 through 7.30.0, and
    8.0.0 through 8.12.1, its EventSource client can be driven to exhaust process memory by a malicious or
    compromised Server-Sent Events peer. By sending millions of tiny completed data fields with no blank event
    separator, or a single unfinished line split across many chunks, the parser retains a growing amount of
    per-field and per-chunk state that the byte-based maxEventSize and maxResponseSize limits do not bound,
    and because maxResponseSize is enforced on the compressed body before decompression, a small compressed
    response can expand into enough retained memory to terminate the process. An application only needs to
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    availability is the only impact. The issue is fixed in undici 6.29.1, 7.30.1, and 8.12.2, which bound the
    retained parser state independently of the byte limits, and users should upgrade to one of those versions
    or later. There is no workaround. (CVE-2026-109924)

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if (!get_kb_item("global_settings/vendor_unpatched")) exit(0, "Unpatched Vulnerabilities Detection not active.");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/CentOS/rpm-list")) && empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) && empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list"))) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

include('linux_unpatched.inc');

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    "package_manager": "dpkg-l",
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        "release": "12",
        "pkgs": [
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var distro_constraints_values = linux_unpatched::get_distro_constraints(distro_constraints_arr:distro_constraints_array);
if (empty_or_null(distro_constraints_values)) audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');

var third_party_support = get_kb_item('Host/OS/extended-third-party');
if (!empty_or_null(third_party_support)) {
    var third_party_vendors = distro_constraints_values['third_party'];
    if (!empty_or_null(third_party_vendors)) {
        var vendor;
        foreach vendor (third_party_vendors) {
            if (vendor == third_party_support) exit(0, 'A third party management patch is available for this vulnerability from ' + vendor + '.\n');
        }
    }
}

var report = linux_unpatched::check_unpatched_constraints(distro_constraints_values:distro_constraints_values);

if (!empty_or_null(report))
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
      extra      : report
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
}

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19 Oct 2026 00:00Current
5.7Medium risk
Vulners AI Score5.7
CVSS 3.15.9
EPSS0.00308
SSVC
5