CVE-2026-111384: Nezha dashboard file manager WebSocket memory exhaustion

CVE-2026-111384 · Severity: medium · CVSS 6.5 · Published 2026-10-16

Nezha is a server monitoring dashboard that collects metrics from distributed agents. An authenticated user with file manager access can send a single oversized message to the file manager WebSocket endpoint, exhausting the dashboard's memory and crashing it, which stops all monitoring and alerting until the service restarts.

Technologies: NezhaHQ Nezha. Vendors: NezhaHQ.

Quick answers

Is CVE-2026-111384 exploited in the wild?
No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-111384 being exploited in the wild.
How severe is CVE-2026-111384?
Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 6.5, published 16 October 2026.
Which products and versions are affected?
NezhaHQ Nezha 1.0.0 before 2.3.15.
Is there a fix for CVE-2026-111384?
Yes: fixed in 2.3.15. Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
How is CVE-2026-111384 attacked?
It is attacked over the network, in a hosted service.
Am I affected by CVE-2026-111384?
Check whether you run NezhaHQ Nezha at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

How to fix

  • Fixed in: 2.3.15

Technical details

The fmStream WebSocket handler in cmd/dashboard/controller/fm.go upgrades a connection without calling SetReadLimit, allowing gorilla/websocket to read an entire attacker-supplied message into memory unbounded. An authenticated user with server:read, server:write, and server:delete scopes can send a single binary WebSocket frame of arbitrary size to /api/v1/ws/file/:sessionID, triggering an out-of-memory kill. The parallel terminalStream endpoint has the same upgrade but correctly calls SetReadLimit(terminalWebSocketInputLimit), showing this is a missed security boundary.

Affected products

  • nezhahq Nezha 1.0.0 before 2.3.15

Timeline

  • 2026-10-01: patched: Fixed in commit 36b742a7
  • 2026-10-01: advisory: GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-7242-982f-83p9 published
  • 2026-10-16: disclosed

References

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