ip-address before 10.7.4 allows a denial of service (CPU consumption from quadratic complexity, and application stall) via many % characters in input reaching a function call that uses the Address6 constructor.

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Attack Requirements Present

User Interaction None

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact None

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact None

Vulnerable System Availability Impact Low

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None

Subsequent System Integrity Impact None

Subsequent System Availability Impact None

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions
beaugunderson ip-address unaffected
Version Status Constraints
0 affected < 10.7.4

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History

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 01:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Title Denial of Service via Excessive % Characters in Address6 Parsing

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description ip-address before 10.7.4 allows a denial of service (CPU consumption from quadratic complexity, and application stall) via many % characters in input reaching a function call that uses the Address6 constructor.
Weaknesses CWE-1333
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 6.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-18T00:07:21.112Z

Reserved: 2026-10-18T00:07:20.697Z

Link: CVE-2026-111997

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-10-18T01:16:35.463

Modified: 2026-10-18T01:16:35.463

Link: CVE-2026-111997

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Updated: 2026-10-18T01:30:16Z

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