# CVE-2026-117504: a2aproject a2a-go Distributed Manager distributed\_manager.go Cancel denial of service

- Severity: CVSS 6.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fix: a fix or patch is referenced
- Published: 2026-10-27 · Updated: 2026-10-27

## Summary

The a2a-go library, a Go implementation of the Agent2Agent protocol, is affected through its distributed task manager, where a flaw in the cancellation handling can be triggered remotely. Successful exploitation could cause a denial of service, disrupting the availability of the affected agent services.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- a2aproject a2a-go: 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4.0

## Description

A vulnerability was identified in a2aproject a2a-go up to 2.4.0. The affected element is the function Cancel of the file internal/taskexec/distributed_manager.go of the component Distributed Manager. Such manipulation leads to denial of service. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Upgrading to version 2.5.0 is sufficient to fix this issue. The name of the patch is 14e41a978b31e134ffa1170d8657f9dd98529aa3. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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## References

- https://vuldb.com/vuln/427071
- https://vuldb.com/vuln/427071/cti
- https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-117504
- https://vuldb.com/submit/1015053
- https://github.com/a2aproject/a2a-go/pull/409
- https://github.com/a2aproject/a2a-go/commit/14e41a978b31e134ffa1170d8657f9dd98529aa3
- https://github.com/a2aproject/a2a-go/releases/tag/v2.5.0
- https://github.com/a2aproject/a2a-go/

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