Unauthenticated server outage via NULL pointer dereference
Published Jul 28, 2026 · Updated Jul 28, 2026
Null pointer dereference in GeneralSandman TinyWeb 0.0.8 and earlier allows remote attackers to crash workers via malformed HTTP requests. HttpParser::execute() returns after invalid HTTP-version parsing without allocating the request Url, yet WebProtocol::dataReceived() still calls buildResponse(), which dereferences the NULL pointer. No credentials or user interaction are required; repeated requests exhaust the worker pool and leave the server offline until manually restarted.
Summary
What happened
Null pointer dereference in GeneralSandman TinyWeb 0.0.8 and earlier allows remote attackers to crash workers via malformed HTTP requests. HttpParser::execute() returns after invalid HTTP-version parsing without allocating the request Url, yet WebProtocol::dataReceived() still calls buildResponse(), which dereferences the NULL pointer. No credentials or user interaction are required; repeated requests exhaust the worker pool and leave the server offline until manually restarted.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-67184
- Published
- Jul 28, 2026
- Updated
- Jul 28, 2026
- Vendor
- GeneralSandman
- Product
- TinyWeb
- Classifications
- CWE-476, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jul 28, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jul 28, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=0.0.8
- Affected versionversion=e48f15d38d2bebeec9cabcfdde81931b10a1963b <=a381da252fe8e873c8aff22703040426cc9b2ae0
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Public exploit references
- TinyWeb malformed HTTP-version denial-of-service proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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