Wings: Maliciously or erroneously created parsed config files can cause wings process to OOM

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-52857",
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    "title": "Wings: Maliciously or erroneously created parsed config files can cause wings process to OOM",
    "summary": "Wings is the server control plane for Pterodactyl, a free, open-source game server management panel. Prior to 1.13.0, unbounded json, yaml, and xml configuration-file parsers in parser.go can process an oversized non-file parser configuration file and exhaust Wings process memory. This issue is fixed in version 1.13.0.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:25.868153962Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/pterodactyl/wings/releases/tag/v1.13.0",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/52xxx/CVE-2026-52857.json",
        "https://github.com/pterodactyl/wings/security/advisories/GHSA-q6hh-gp44-4hcm",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-52857",
        "https://github.com/pterodactyl/wings/commit/5f71f65711b6b9e6f913bec94a7b36d9a5eaae49"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 492563,
  "published_at": "2026-07-31T16:09:42.791+00:00"
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