{"id":"CVE-2026-54135","aliases":["EUVD-2026-76482","GHSA-p5hv-3m79-452q"],"status":"published","title":"AirSane has a Remote Denial of Service (OOM) via Unvalidated Content-Length in HTTP Server","description":"AirSane is a SANE frontend, and a scanner server that supports Apple's AirScan protocol. Versions prior to 0.4.12 have a vulnerability in the custom HTTP server implementation of AirSane that allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via memory exhaustion (OOM). In httpserver.cpp, the HttpServer::Request::content function reads the Content-Length header and directly passes this value to std::string::resize() without any upper-bound validation or safe parsing. An attacker can send an HTTP POST request with an artificially large Content-Length value. This forces the daemon to attempt allocating gigabytes of memory, resulting in a std::bad_alloc exception and immediately crashing the AirSane process. Additionally, providing non-numeric characters in the Content-Length header leads to undefined behavior (NaN to integer conversion) due to the lack of error handling during header parsing. Version 0.4.12 patches the issue.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-11","score":0.00761,"percentile":0.55769,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-400","CWE-770"],"published":"2026-09-11T19:44:39Z","modified":"2026-11-11T02:48:52Z","products":[{"vendor":"simulpiscator","product":"airsane"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/SimulPiscator/AirSane/security/advisories/GHSA-p5hv-3m79-452q","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","exploit","advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/SimulPiscator/AirSane/commit/129cc3bf7258251a0a694dee7741285b59d88f9f","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","fix"]},{"url":"https://github.com/SimulPiscator/AirSane/releases/tag/v0.4.12","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/54xxx/CVE-2026-54135.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-54135","tags":["advisory"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-54135","title":"AirSane has a Remote Denial of Service (OOM) via Unvalidated Content-Length in HTTP Server","description":"AirSane is a SANE frontend, and a scanner server that supports Apple's AirScan protocol. 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This forces the daemon to attempt allocating gigabytes of memory, resulting in a std::bad_alloc exception and immediately crashing the AirSane process. Additionally, providing non-numeric characters in the Content-Length header leads to undefined behavior (NaN to integer conversion) due to the lack of error handling during header parsing. Version 0.4.12 patches the issue.","status":"published","published":"2026-09-11T19:44:39Z","modified":"2026-09-14T18:47:55Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T17:28:19.730872Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2026-54135","description":"AirSane is a SANE frontend, and a scanner server that supports Apple's AirScan protocol. Versions prior to 0.4.12 have a vulnerability in the custom HTTP server implementation of AirSane that allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via memory exhaustion (OOM). In httpserver.cpp, the HttpServer::Request::content function reads the Content-Length header and directly passes this value to std::string::resize() without any upper-bound validation or safe parsing. An attacker can send an HTTP POST request with an artificially large Content-Length value. This forces the daemon to attempt allocating gigabytes of memory, resulting in a std::bad_alloc exception and immediately crashing the AirSane process. Additionally, providing non-numeric characters in the Content-Length header leads to undefined behavior (NaN to integer conversion) due to the lack of error handling during header parsing. Version 0.4.12 patches the issue.","status":"published","published":"2026-09-11T20:17:14.33Z","modified":"2026-09-30T19:57:08.043Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"secondary"}],"cwes":["CWE-400","CWE-770"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:12:46.271848Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"CVE-2026-54135","title":"AirSane has a Remote Denial of Service (OOM) via Unvalidated Content-Length in HTTP Server","description":"AirSane is a SANE frontend, and a scanner server that supports Apple's AirScan protocol. Versions prior to 0.4.12 have a vulnerability in the custom HTTP server implementation of AirSane that allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via memory exhaustion (OOM). In httpserver.cpp, the HttpServer::Request::content function reads the Content-Length header and directly passes this value to std::string::resize() without any upper-bound validation or safe parsing. An attacker can send an HTTP POST request with an artificially large Content-Length value. This forces the daemon to attempt allocating gigabytes of memory, resulting in a std::bad_alloc exception and immediately crashing the AirSane process. Additionally, providing non-numeric characters in the Content-Length header leads to undefined behavior (NaN to integer conversion) due to the lack of error handling during header parsing. Version 0.4.12 patches the issue.","status":"published","published":"2026-09-11T19:44:39.687Z","modified":"2026-11-11T13:25:16.519290114Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-400","CWE-770"],"updated_at":"2026-11-11T03:21:38.364245Z"}]}}