VulnerabilityPublished 6 Oct 2026Updated 31 Oct 2026

CVE-2026-104874: Reference leak in CIMultiDict/MultiDict items-view union and subtraction

Affects scoutsuiteSource GCVE Database

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Authoritative record:CVE-2026-104874· Medium 5.3

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 5.3 Medium : upgrade to 5.14.0_17 when convenient.

Data as of 1 Nov 2026, 00:22 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

5.3Medium

How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

Patch: Available – fixed in 5.14.0_17

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: None
User Interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: None
Integrity: None
Availability: Low

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Network: The vulnerable component is bound to the network stack and the set of possible attackers extends beyond the other options listed, up to and including the entire Internet. Such a vulnerability is often termed 'remotely exploitable' and can be thought of as an attack being exploitable at the protocol level one or more network hops away (e.g., across one or more routers).
Attack Complexity: Low: Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable component.
Privileges Required: None: The attacker is unauthorized prior to attack, and therefore does not require any access to settings or files to carry out an attack.
User Interaction: None: The vulnerable system can be exploited without any interaction from any user.
Scope: Unchanged: An exploited vulnerability can only affect resources managed by the same security authority. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are either the same, or both are managed by the same security authority.
Confidentiality: None: There is no loss of confidentiality within the impacted component.
Integrity: None: There is no loss of integrity within the impacted component.
Availability: Low: Performance is reduced or there are interruptions in resource availability. Even if repeated exploitation of the vulnerability is possible, the attacker does not have the ability to completely deny service to legitimate users. The resources in the impacted component are either partially available all of the time, or fully available only some of the time, but overall there is no direct, serious consequence to the impacted component.

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 2 Oct 2026
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponized: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 31 Oct 2026.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponized: A Metasploit exploit module or Exploit-DB entry exists (Metasploit scanner modules do not count), or CISA SSVC or the CVSS exploit maturity reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

Upgrade scoutsuite to 5.14.0_17.

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
Homebrewscoutsuite`pkg:brew/scoutsuite`Other threats	Affected >=5.14.0_13 <5.14.0_17	Fixed in 5.14.0_17

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AI-suggested

A patch is available and should be applied to upgrade to version 5.14.0_17 or later of the affected product. Applying the official fix will prevent the reference leak and associated memory exhaustion. No other mitigation actions are indicated or required.

Description

A reference leak vulnerability exists in the items-view union and subtraction operators of aio-libs/multidict versions 6.7.0 through 6.9.0. This flaw allows a remote client to cause unbounded memory growth by leaking references to key-identity and value objects during certain set operations on items views. The leak occurs because the code fails to release new references created during parsing, leading to unreclaimable memory consumption until the process is terminated.

Impact

The vulnerability causes a memory leak that can be exploited remotely by an attacker controlling HTTP headers or query strings processed by servers using the affected multidict versions. This leads to unbounded memory growth, degrading availability and potentially causing denial of service by exhausting system memory. There is no impact on confidentiality or integrity. The CVSS score is 5.3 (medium severity) reflecting the availability impact without other impacts.

Summary

CVE-2026-104874 is a reference leak in the items-view union (|) and subtraction (-) operators of aio-libs/multidict C extension versions 6.7.0 through 6.9.0. The root cause is that the parsing function _multidict_itemsview_parse_item() returns new strong references for identity and value objects, but the first parse loops in or2_impl and sub1_impl fail to release these references properly. This results in each element leaking one key-identity and one value object reference. The leak is triggered when servers build these views over attacker-controlled HTTP headers or query strings, allowing remote memory exhaustion. Garbage collection does not recover the leaked objects, causing resident memory to grow monotonically until process termination. The issue was introduced behaviorally between versions 6.6.4 and 6.7.0 due to a change in ownership semantics of key-identity references. A fix is available in version 5.14.0_17 of the affected product (scoutsuite) as per established facts.

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