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CWE-772
Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime
The product does not release a resource after its effective lifetime has ended, i.e., after the resource is no longer needed.
CVE-2026-45287 (GCVE-0-2026-45287)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-04 14:45 – Updated: 2026-06-08 18:27
VLAI
Title
OpenTelemetry-Go's Schema ParseFile leaks file descriptors on each parse
Summary
OpenTelemetry-Go is the Go implementation of OpenTelemetry. Prior to version 0.0.17, `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/schema/v1.0` and `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/schema/v1.1` leaks one file descriptor on each successful `ParseFile` call. `ParseFile` opens the schema file and passes it to `Parse` without closing it; repeated parsing in a long-running process can exhaust the process file descriptor limit and cause denial of service. Exploitation depends on a consuming application exposing repeated schema parsing to an attacker-controlled path. Version 0.0.17 contains a patch for the issue.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-g… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-g… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-g… | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| open-telemetry | go.opentelemetry.io/otel/schema/v1.1 |
Affected:
< 0.0.17
|
|
| open-telemetry | go.opentelemetry.io/otel/schema/v1.0 |
Affected:
< 0.0.17
|
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CVE-2026-45536 (GCVE-0-2026-45536)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-12 14:12 – Updated: 2026-06-12 15:05
VLAI
Title
Netty: Unix-socket fd receive leaks descriptors when peer sends two at once
Summary
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Severity
4 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisorie… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty… | x_refsource_MISC |
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CVE-2026-54786 (GCVE-0-2026-54786)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-01 20:12 – Updated: 2026-07-02 12:44
VLAI
Title
Wasmtime: Leak in WASIp1 `fd_renumber` implementation
Summary
Wasmtime is a runtime for WebAssembly. All versions prior to 24.0.10; versions 25.0.0 through those before 36.0.11; versions 37.0.0 through those before 44.0.3; and versions 45.0.0 and 45.0.1 contain a native implementation of WASIp1 which suffers from a leak in the fd_renumber function where the file descriptor being renumbered to is not properly closed. Wasmtime's implementation erroneously only updated the table of descriptors for WASIp1 and didn't update the underlying table of descriptors used by the host. This behavior means that while fd_renumber works correctly from a guest's perspective it ends up leaking resources in the host that aren't cleaned up until the corresponding Store is destroyed. In a loop, guests can use fd_renumber to cause hosts to exhaust both resources and file descriptors. This bug only affects the native implementation of WASIp1, meaning that only runtimes which load core wasm modules and expose fd_renumber are affected. Runtimes are additionally only affected if they expose the ability to acquire a file descriptor, such as opening a file. For runtimes that deny access to files they are unaffected. This issue has been fixed in versions 24.0.10, 36.0.11, 44.0.3, and 45.0.2.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/secu… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| bytecodealliance | wasmtime |
Affected:
< 24.0.10
Affected: >= 25.0.0, < 36.0.11 Affected: >= 37.0.0, < 44.0.3 Affected: >= 45.0.0, < 45.0.2 |
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CVE-2026-9156 (GCVE-0-2026-9156)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-27 01:19 – Updated: 2026-05-27 13:50
VLAI
Title
Tanium addressed a denial of service vulnerability in Tanium Server.
Summary
Tanium addressed a denial of service vulnerability in Tanium Server.
Severity
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SSVC
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CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
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Assigner
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Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanium | Tanium Server |
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7.6.4.0 , < 7.6.4.2190
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Date Public
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"cveId": "CVE-2026-9156",
"datePublished": "2026-05-27T01:19:26.286Z",
"dateReserved": "2026-05-21T01:21:38.154Z",
"dateUpdated": "2026-05-27T13:50:44.570Z",
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Mitigation ID: MIT-3
Phase: Requirements
Strategy: Language Selection
Description:
- Use a language that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
- For example, languages such as Java, Ruby, and Lisp perform automatic garbage collection that releases memory for objects that have been deallocated.
Mitigation
Phase: Implementation
Description:
- It is good practice to be responsible for freeing all resources you allocate and to be consistent with how and where you free resources in a function. If you allocate resources that you intend to free upon completion of the function, you must be sure to free the resources at all exit points for that function including error conditions.
Mitigation ID: MIT-47
Phases: Operation, Architecture and Design
Strategy: Resource Limitation
Description:
- Use resource-limiting settings provided by the operating system or environment. For example, when managing system resources in POSIX, setrlimit() can be used to set limits for certain types of resources, and getrlimit() can determine how many resources are available. However, these functions are not available on all operating systems.
- When the current levels get close to the maximum that is defined for the application (see CWE-770), then limit the allocation of further resources to privileged users; alternately, begin releasing resources for less-privileged users. While this mitigation may protect the system from attack, it will not necessarily stop attackers from adversely impacting other users.
- Ensure that the application performs the appropriate error checks and error handling in case resources become unavailable (CWE-703).
CAPEC-469: HTTP DoS
An attacker performs flooding at the HTTP level to bring down only a particular web application rather than anything listening on a TCP/IP connection. This denial of service attack requires substantially fewer packets to be sent which makes DoS harder to detect. This is an equivalent of SYN flood in HTTP. The idea is to keep the HTTP session alive indefinitely and then repeat that hundreds of times. This attack targets resource depletion weaknesses in web server software. The web server will wait to attacker's responses on the initiated HTTP sessions while the connection threads are being exhausted.