CVE-2026-21714

Updated on 30 Mar 2026

Severity

5.3 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.3
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Overview

About vulnerability

A memory leak occurs in Node.js HTTP/2 servers when a client sends WINDOW_UPDATE frames on stream 0 (connection-level) that cause the flow control window to exceed the maximum value of 2³¹-1. The server correctly sends a GOAWAY frame, but the Http2Session object is never cleaned up.

This vulnerability affects HTTP2 users on Node.js 20, 22, 24 and 25.

Details

Affected packages:
nodejs @ 18.20.8 (+41 more)

A memory leak occurs in Node.js HTTP/2 servers when a client sends WINDOW_UPDATE frames on stream 0 (connection-level) that cause the flow control window to exceed the maximum value of 2³¹-1. The server correctly sends a GOAWAY frame, but the Http2Session object is never cleaned up.

This vulnerability affects HTTP2 users on Node.js 20, 22, 24 and 25.

Fixes