# CVE-2026-54135: AirSane has a Remote Denial of Service (OOM) via Unvalidated Content-Length in HTTP Server

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.4.12
- Published: 2026-09-11 · Updated: 2026-09-14

## Affected

- SimulPiscator AirSane: fixed in 0.4.12

## Description

AirSane is a SANE frontend, and a scanner server that supports Apple's AirScan protocol. Versions prior to 0.4.12 have a vulnerability in the custom HTTP server implementation of AirSane that allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via memory exhaustion (OOM). In httpserver.cpp, the HttpServer::Request::content function reads the Content-Length header and directly passes this value to std::string::resize() without any upper-bound validation or safe parsing. An attacker can send an HTTP POST request with an artificially large Content-Length value. This forces the daemon to attempt allocating gigabytes of memory, resulting in a std::bad_alloc exception and immediately crashing the AirSane process. Additionally, providing non-numeric characters in the Content-Length header leads to undefined behavior (NaN to integer conversion) due to the lack of error handling during header parsing. Version 0.4.12 patches the issue.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on SimulPiscator AirSane, upgrade to a fixed version (0.4.12) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/SimulPiscator/AirSane/security/advisories/GHSA-p5hv-3m79-452q
- https://github.com/SimulPiscator/AirSane/commit/129cc3bf7258251a0a694dee7741285b59d88f9f
- https://github.com/SimulPiscator/AirSane/releases/tag/v0.4.12

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