Description
ip-address before 10.7.4 allows a denial of service (CPU consumption from quadratic complexity, and application stall) via many % characters in input reaching a function call that uses the Address6 constructor.
Published: 2026-10-18
Score: 6.3 Medium
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Sun, 18 Oct 2026 01:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Title Denial of Service via Excessive % Characters in Address6 Parsing

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:45:00 +0000

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Description ip-address before 10.7.4 allows a denial of service (CPU consumption from quadratic complexity, and application stall) via many % characters in input reaching a function call that uses the Address6 constructor.
Weaknesses CWE-1333
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 6.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-18T00:07:21.112Z

Reserved: 2026-10-18T00:07:20.697Z

Link: CVE-2026-111997

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-10-18T01:16:35.463

Modified: 2026-10-18T01:16:35.463

Link: CVE-2026-111997

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Updated: 2026-10-18T01:30:16Z

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