CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-14362

MediumCVSS 4.9
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.25%

16th percentile - higher than 16% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability in HashiCorp memberlist before version 0.6.0 allows an attacker with network access to the gossip port to exhaust memory on a receiving node, causing process termination. The issue is in push/pull state handling.

Risk Assessment

An unauthenticated remote attacker can cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition, potentially disrupting cluster operations and causing downtime in applications using memberlist.

Recommendation

Immediately upgrade memberlist to version 0.6.0 or later. If upgrade is not possible, restrict access to the gossip port to trusted IP addresses only.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

HashiCorp memberlist before version 0.6.0 is vulnerable to a denial-of-service issue in its push/pull state handling that may allow an attacker with network access to the gossip port to exhaust memory on a receiving node and cause the process to terminate. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-14362) is fixed in memberlist 0.6.0.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS