NATS-Server is a High-Performance server for NATS.io, a cloud and edge native messaging system. The WebSockets handling of NATS messages handles compressed messages via the WebSockets negotiated compression. Prior to versions 2.11.2 and 2.12.3, the implementation bound the memory size of a NATS message but did not independently bound the memory consumption of the memory stream when constructing a NATS message which might then fail validation for size reasons. An attacker can use a compression bomb to cause excessive memory consumption, often resulting in the operating system terminating the server process. The use of compression is negotiated before authentication, so this does not require valid NATS credentials to exploit. The fix, present in versions 2.11.2 and 2.12.3, was to bounds the decompression to fail once the message was too large, instead of continuing on. The vulnerability only affects deployments which use WebSockets and which expose the network port to untrusted end-points.
CVE-2026-27571
This medium-severity CVE scores 5.9 under the CNA's CVSS (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit-prediction score not yet available (the EPSS model rescores nightly; freshly-published CVEs typically appear within 48 hours). GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 5.9(low)
- EG Risk
- 27(Track)EG Risk 27/100SSVC: Track
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How it’s computedSeverity59% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 39%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
February 24, 2026
Last Modified
June 17, 2026
References (4)
- security-advisories@githubhttps://github.com/nats-io/nats-server/commit/f77fb7c4535e6727cc1a2899cd8e6bbdd8ba2017
- security-advisories@githubhttps://github.com/nats-io/nats-server/releases/tag/v2.11.12
- security-advisories@githubhttps://github.com/nats-io/nats-server/releases/tag/v2.12.3
- security-advisories@githubhttps://github.com/nats-io/nats-server/security/advisories/GHSA-qrvq-68c2-7grw
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-27571(2)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Patch Availability(2)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhat | multicluster-globalhub/multicluster-globalhub-grafana-rhel9:1773650060 | 2026-03-31 | redhat |
| redhat | multicluster-globalhub/multicluster-globalhub-grafana-rhel9:1773650767 | 2026-03-19 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Weakness Classification(2)
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Additional Vendor Advisories
(1)
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Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 3× in last 7d / 3× in last 30d)
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- 2026-07-27 12:55 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-27 12:55 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-07-27 12:50 UTCOSV refresh
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