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Wings: Maliciously crafted packet during SFTP connection handshake causes denial of service

Type: advisorySources: OSV

Wings is the server control plane for Pterodactyl, a free, open-source game server management panel. Prior to 1.13.0, a malformed packet received during the SFTP connection handshake causes a Go panic. This issue is fixed in version 1.13.0.

Products
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Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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CVEs
CVE-2026-52856
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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Updated in this feed
3 Nov 2026, 18:19 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Wings: Maliciously crafted packet during SFTP connection handshake causes denial of service

core-osv · Original source

Published 31 Jul 2026, 16:20 UTC

Wings is the server control plane for Pterodactyl, a free, open-source game server management panel. Prior to 1.13.0, a malformed packet received during the SFTP connection handshake causes a Go panic. This issue is fixed in version 1.13.0.

osv:CVE-2026-52856
Complete source record
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    "summary": "Wings is the server control plane for Pterodactyl, a free, open-source game server management panel. Prior to 1.13.0, a malformed packet received during the SFTP connection handshake causes a Go panic. This issue is fixed in version 1.13.0.",
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      "provider": "osv",
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