# CVE-2026-115775: Twisted: Unauthenticated Remote Denial of Service in the Twisted words domish XML Element Stream via an Unbounded Element Tree

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-109149, GHSA-3476-C5C2-FR73
- 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
- Fixed in: 26.10.0rc1
- Published: 2026-10-23 · Updated: 2026-10-29

## Summary

Twisted, a Python event-driven networking framework, is affected through its twisted.words XML stream parser, which is used by XMPP servers and clients. An unauthenticated remote attacker can open a single connection and keep sending child elements into an unfinished XML stanza, causing the server's memory to be exhausted and the process to crash.

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## Affected

- twisted: fixed in 26.10.0rc1
- twisted (PyPI): fixed in 26.10.0rc1

## Description

Twisted is an event-based framework for internet applications, supporting Python 3.6+. Prior to 26.10.0rc1, the twisted.words.xish.domish ExpatElementStream parser allows an unauthenticated remote peer to keep a container element open while continuously adding child elements. The parser retains the unfinished stanza as an in-memory tree without a byte or element-count limit, and XMPP pre-authentication stream parsing exposes this behavior before credentials are accepted. A single connection can therefore exhaust server memory and terminate the process. This issue is fixed in version 26.10.0rc1.

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## References

- https://github.com/twisted/twisted/security/advisories/GHSA-3476-c5c2-fr73
- https://github.com/twisted/twisted/pull/12751
- https://github.com/twisted/twisted/commit/8873814bec8288e2466fad4d2c4d64039beb88b0
- https://github.com/twisted/twisted/releases/tag/twisted-26.10.0rc1

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