5.5

CVE-2026-52857: pterodactyl wings Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVSS: 5.5v3.1MediumDeferred
AliasesGHSA-q6hh-gp44-4hcmGO-2026-6159
Published 31-07-2026Last modified 31-07-2026
Open JSON

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-52857 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in pterodactyl wings. EPSS estimates a 0.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 4.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
22/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.16%
0%100%
Low · +0.05 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2 · Related 2
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:21761-1SUSE-SU-2026:23625-1

Timeline

  1. 31-07-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 31-07-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Wings is the server control plane for Pterodactyl, a free, open-source game server management panel. Prior to 1.13.0, unbounded json, yaml, and xml configuration-file parsers in parser.go can process an oversized non-file parser configuration file and exhaust Wings process memory. This issue is fixed in version 1.13.0.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.16%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

5%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.05 pp

From 0.11% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
0.16%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Github.com/pterodactyl1 product
  • wings< 1.13.0
Pterodactyl1 product

2 vendors · 2 products

References

4 links