CVE-2026-96292
Description
A flaw was found in Apache Thrift's Lua bindings. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending specially crafted input that triggers inefficient regular expression processing. This can cause excessive resource consumption, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) on the affected service.
Understanding the Weakness (CWE)
Availability
Technical Impact: DoS: Resource Consumption (CPU)
Attackers can create crafted inputs that intentionally cause the regular expression to use excessive backtracking in a way that causes the CPU consumption to spike.
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