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CVE-2026-123828

Node.js is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow in HTTP/2 session.altsvc() via a long origin

Severity
Medium 5.9
Published
11 Nov 2026
Last changed
11 Nov 2026
Added to UpHeron
11 Nov 2026
Fixed in
24.22.3, 26.13.1
Weakness
Heap-based buffer overflow (CWE-122)
Attack
Over the network · Only under certain conditions · No login needed · No user action needed
Attacker can
Take it down
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Sources
CVE Program

Description

A one-byte heap buffer overflow in Node.js HTTP/2 Alt-Svc handling lets a remote, unauthenticated attacker corrupt process memory. When an application passes an attacker-controlled value such as a request's :authority header to Http2Session.altsvc(), the AltSvc implementation in src/node_http2.cc allocates a buffer sized to the origin length and then writes it with a null terminator, placing one byte past the end of the allocation. A single request carrying a long but syntactically valid :authority triggers the out-of-bounds write, which aborts the process and serves as a remote heap-corruption primitive. This vulnerability affects Node.js 26.x and 24.x.

From the CVE Program.

Affected software

SoftwareAffected versions
Node.jsServers and applications · cna:nodejs|node
  • From 24.0.0 before 24.22.3
  • From 25.0.0 before 26.13.1

References

  • CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-123828