CVE-2026-43981 (GCVE-0-2026-43981)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-26 16:31 – Updated: 2026-05-27 13:47
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Algernon: Race Condition in handle() shared LState
Summary
Algernon is a small self-contained pure-Go web server. Prior to 1.17.6, in engine/luahandler.go, the sync.RWMutex protecting LoadCommonFunctions is released before L.Push() and L.PCall() execute. Since gopher-lua's LState is explicitly not goroutine-safe, concurrent requests race on the shared state causing Lua VM corruption. The Go race detector confirms this immediately under modest concurrency (ab -n 1000 -c 100). This vulnerability is fixed in 1.17.6.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-05-27 13:46 UTC
CWE
- CWE-362 - Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/xyproto/algernon/security/advi… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/xyproto/algernon/issues/172 | x_refsource_MISC |
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