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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2026-111997

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.

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CVE-2026-111997
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4 Nov 2026, 17:53 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2026-111997

core-osv · Original source

Published 18 Oct 2026, 00:07 UTC

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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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-111997",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2026-111997",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2026-111997",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2026-111997",
      "aliases": [
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        "GHSA-rxp7-6hxx-x8q5"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V4",
          "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N"
        }
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                    "strategy": "StandardRange"
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:38.043115670Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/111xxx/CVE-2026-111997.json",
        "https://github.com/beaugunderson/ip-address/security/advisories/GHSA-rxp7-6hxx-x8q5",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-111997"
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      }
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    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 505471,
  "published_at": "2026-10-18T00:07:21.112+00:00"
}