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CVE-2026-11946: GetEndpoints Memory Exhaustion in open62541

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-07-02 · updated 2026-10-25
• Weakness: CWE-770

Description

An unauthenticated remote attacker can exhaust server memory via the GetEndpoints Discovery Service in open62541. The endpointUrl field of GetEndpointsRequest is not validated for length. An attacker can declare an arbitrarily large string (up to ~4.09 GB via the UInt32 length field) delivered across intermediate chunks without ever sending the final chunk. The server buffers all chunks in RAM indefinitely until the SecureChannel times out. The attack is pre-session and bypasses all encryption configurations. The issue affects open62541: from 1.4.0 through 1.4.16, from 1.5.0 through 1.5.4, master.

Affected products

• open62541 project / o6 Automation GmbH open62541: from 1.4.0 through 1.4.16; from 1.5.0 through 1.5.4; master

References

• https://github.com/open62541/open62541
• https://github.com/open62541/open62541/pull/8142
• https://github.com/open62541/open62541/pull/8142/changes/d253818d6c5e870e1db0e360b18138c8bdc809ae

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