MajorCritical vulnerability
CVE-2026-112021 (CVSS 8.7)
NVD · officialPublished Oct 18, 2026Risk 37/100
snac2 before 2.93 contains a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in _xs_json_load_lexer() that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to corrupt heap memory by sending JSON strings containing a \u0000 escape. Attackers can send a single crafted application/activity+json POST to activitypub_post_handler(), which parses it before signature checks, overflowing heap allocations and crashing the server.
Technical details
CVSS
8.7
AV:NetworkAC:LowPR:NoneUI:None
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