CVE-2026-68911highCWE-409

CVE-2026-68911: high-severity vulnerability in nicotine-plus

Nicotine+: Decompression of peer messages can exhaust available memory

Published

21Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 8.7epss 0.3%
exploitation probability
0.3%top 79% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
Nicotine+ is a graphical client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer network. Prior to version 3.3.11, a modified remote client can send zlib-compressed peer messages containing a decompression bomb, exhausting available memory of the recipient's operating system. This issue has been patched in version 3.3.11.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
nicotine-plus · nicotine-plus
References
https://github.com/nicotine-plus/nicotine-plus/commit/61de347fbaaab02eae1606df4f95d9dc17066d4chttps://github.com/nicotine-plus/nicotine-plus/pull/3646https://github.com/nicotine-plus/nicotine-plus/releases/tag/3.3.11https://github.com/nicotine-plus/nicotine-plus/security/advisories/GHSA-8w4c-p7mj-g886