CVE-2026-32941

Sliver Vulnerable to Authenticated OOM via Memory Exhaustion in mTLS/WireGuard Transports

State
Published
Severity
5.7 Medium
Published
Mar 20, 2026
Updated
Mar 21, 2026
Reserved
Mar 17, 2026

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Description

Sliver is a command and control framework that uses a custom Wireguard netstack. Versions 1.7.3 and below contain a Remote OOM (Out-of-Memory) vulnerability in the Sliver C2 server's mTLS and WireGuard C2 transport layer. The socketReadEnvelope and socketWGReadEnvelope functions trust an attacker-controlled 4-byte length prefix to allocate memory, with ServerMaxMessageSize allowing single allocations of up to ~2 GiB. A compromised implant or an attacker with valid credentials can exploit this by sending fabricated length prefixes over concurrent yamux streams (up to 128 per connection), forcing the server to attempt allocating ~256 GiB of memory and triggering an OS OOM kill. This crashes the Sliver server, disrupts all active implant sessions, and may degrade or kill other processes sharing the same host. The same pattern also affects all implant-side readers, which have no upper-bound check at all. The issue was not fixed at the the time of publication.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.05.7 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:PGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
  • CWE-789 Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value

Affected Products

ProductVersions
sliverBishopFox
  • <= 1.7.3Affected

References

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