CVE-2026-70616
MEDIUMboringproxy 0.10.0 Resource Exhaustion DoS via GET /loading endpoint
Title source: cnaDescription
boringproxy through 0.10.0 contains a resource exhaustion vulnerability that allows any authenticated user to permanently exhaust server file descriptors, goroutines, and memory by sending requests to the GET /loading endpoint with attacker-supplied id query parameter values. Because the handler performs no map-lookup validity check and receives on a nil channel that blocks forever, with no timeout, no context cancellation, and no server-side reclamation due to absent HTTP server timeouts, each malicious request permanently holds one goroutine, one file descriptor, and approximately 50 kB of memory until the server's file descriptor limit is reached and listener Accept calls fail, halting all tunnel traffic forwarding for all users.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Exploit technical-description
exploit
Researcher Disclosure
https://github.com/theopaid/Denial-Of-Service-Through-Unbounded-Resource-Consumption-In-Request-Handler-boringproxy-/blob/master/README.md
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/boringproxy-resource-exhaustion-dos-via-get-loading-endpoint
Scores
CVSS v3
6.5
EPSS
0.0020
EPSS Percentile
9.8%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
poc
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-833
Status
published
Products (1)
boringproxy/boringproxy
< 0.10.0
Published
Aug 05, 2026
Tracked Since
Aug 06, 2026