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CVE-2026-71217

Medium

Elevated severity or exploit probability.

CVSS base
7.5 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS — probability of exploitation (30 days)
0.8%
55.5th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness / dates
CWE-20
Published 2026-08-11 · modified 2026-08-31

Description

A flaw was found in iperf3. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted control-channel JSON with oversized numeric parameters, such as `parallel` and `len`, which are not properly validated by the server. This improper input validation can lead to excessive stream and thread creation, as well as large buffer allocations, causing resource exhaustion. Consequently, this can result in a Denial of Service (DoS) on the affected iperf3 server.

References

Official: NVD · CVE.org