CVE-2026-111997

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.3 v4.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2026-10-18 · updated 2026-10-19
Weakness: CWE-1333

Description

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.

Affected products

beaugunderson ip-address: before 10.7.4 — fixed in 10.7.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: beaugunderson ip-address 10.7.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://github.com/beaugunderson/ip-address/security/advisories/GHSA-rxp7-6hxx-x8q5
https://github.com/beaugunderson/ip-address/security/advisories/GHSA-rxp7-6hxx-x8q5

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