Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting zebra-network package, versions <5.0.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUST-ZEBRANETWORK-16301601
  • published27 Apr 2026
  • disclosed22 Apr 2026
  • creditZk-nd3r

Introduced: 22 Apr 2026

NewCVE-2026-40881  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade zebra-network to version 5.0.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in the deserialization process of addr or addrv2 messages, which contain vectors of addresses. An attacker can cause the application to exhaust system memory and abort by sending multiple crafted messages with excessive address vectors over different connections.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1