Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-95861 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-95861 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-95861?
- High severity, with a CVSS score of 7.5, published 22 September 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Ubiquiti UniFi Gateway.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-95861?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-95861 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a network appliance.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-95861?
- Check whether you run Ubiquiti UniFi Gateway. 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.
Technical details
An uncontrolled recursion vulnerability in certain UniFi Gateway firmware versions allows a network-accessible attacker to trigger excessive recursive function calls, exhausting stack resources and crashing the device. No authentication is required; the attack is triggered through specially crafted network packets. A successful exploit results in denial of service.
Affected products
- Ubiquiti UniFi Gateway
Timeline
- 2026-09-22: disclosed