Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-111997
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 4 Nov 2026, 17:53 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2026-111997
Complete source record
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"method": "structured",
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"modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:38.043115670Z",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2026-10-18T00:07:21.112+00:00"
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