CVE-2026-61629 (GCVE-0-2026-61629)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-21 14:22
Modified
2026-09-24 22:11
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VLAI Severity ?
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CWE
- CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Summary
nginx ignition is a user interface for the nginx web server. In versions 2.29.0 through 2.40.0, the gin i18n middleware in nginx-ignition's API server runs in front of every HTTP request and calls `golang.org/x/text/language.ParseAcceptLanguage` on the raw `Accept-Language` header without imposing any size or shape filter. The underlying parser has quadratic-time behaviour on long lists of malformed language tags. The CVE-2022-32149 guard that golang.org/x/text added in v0.3.8 caps the number of `-` characters in the input at 1000, but it does not cap `_` characters even though the parser's internal scanner aliases `_` to `-` before parsing. A single unauthenticated GET request with an `Accept-Language` header built out of `_` separators burns about 2.4 seconds of server CPU on the host running nginx-ignition; ten concurrent attackers saturate a ten-core box for the duration of the attack while consuming ~10 MiB/s of upstream bandwidth. Version 2.40.1 fixes this issue.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| lucasdillmann | nginx-ignition |
Version: >= 2.29.0, < 2.40.1 |
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