CVE-2026-2581

Severity
5.9MEDIUM
EPSS
0.0%
top 94.96%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMar 12
Latest updateMar 13

Description

This is an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability (CWE-400) that can lead to Denial of Service (DoS). In vulnerable Undici versions, when interceptors.deduplicate() is enabled, response data for deduplicated requests could be accumulated in memory for downstream handlers. An attacker-controlled or untrusted upstream endpoint can exploit this with large/chunked responses and concurrent identical requests, causing high memory usage and potential OOM process termination. Impacted users a

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.2 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

NVDnodejs/undici7.17.07.24.0
Debiannode-undici< 7.24.5+dfsg+~cs3.2.0-1
npmundici7.17.07.24.0
CVEListV5undici/undici< 6.24.0; 7.0.0 < 7.24.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
OSV
Undici has Unbounded Memory Consumption in its DeduplicationHandler via Response Buffering that leads to DoS2026-03-13
GHSA
Undici has Unbounded Memory Consumption in its DeduplicationHandler via Response Buffering that leads to DoS2026-03-13
CVEList
undici is vulnerable to Unbounded Memory Consumption in in Undici's DeduplicationHandler via Response Buffering leads to DoS2026-03-12
OSV
CVE-2026-2581: This is an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability (CWE-400) that can lead to Denial of Service (DoS)2026-03-12

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
undici: Undici: Denial of Service due to uncontrolled resource consumption2026-03-12
Debian
CVE-2026-2581: node-undici - This is an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability (CWE-400) that can le...2026

🕵️Threat Intelligence

1
Wiz
CVE-2026-2581 Impact, Exploitability, and Mitigation Steps | Wiz

💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2026-2581 undici: Undici: Denial of Service due to uncontrolled resource consumption2026-03-12
CVE-2026-2581 (MEDIUM CVSS 5.9) | This is an uncontrolled resource co | cvebase.io