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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-52880 EUVD-2026-54722GHSA-w4c6-7r69-w7j9GO-2026-5686

Klever-Go: REST API slow-header connection exhaustion via Gin Engine.Run

Published Aug 7, 2026 · Updated Aug 11, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Klever-Go is the Go implementation of the Klever blockchain protocol. Versions from 1.7.14 through 1.7.17 are vulnerable to a remotely triggerable denial of service. Both REST APIs are started with the Gin Engine.Run convenience method, which serves requests through Go's default HTTP server with no ReadHeaderTimeout, ReadTimeout, or MaxHeaderBytes configured. As a result, incoming connections that never complete their request headers are held open indefinitely. When a REST listener is reachable beyond localhost through the documented all-interface bind or a Docker port-publish deployment, a single unauthenticated client can open many slow-header connections and hold them open until server file descriptors are exhausted, preventing the API from accepting new connections. This renders the REST API unavailable to legitimate clients. This issue is fixed in version 1.7.18.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
klever-io klever-go >= 1.7.14, < 1.7.18 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/klever-io/klever-go >= 1.7.14, < 1.7.18 1.7.18 GHSA-w4c6-7r69-w7j9

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