Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value Affecting h2o/h2o package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.49% (40th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-H2OH2O-18016328
  • published19 Jul 2026
  • disclosed17 Jul 2026
  • creditElhananHaenel

Introduced: 17 Jul 2026

CVE-2026-44453  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-789  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value when serving static files via the alloca function. An attacker can cause the server to crash by requesting static files that result in excessive stack memory allocation, leading to a segmentation fault.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1