CVE-2025-69199 Pterodactyl websocket endpoints have no visible rate limits or monitoring, allowing for DOS attacks
Attackers can exhaust system resources via unthrottled websocket connections in Pterodactyl Wings, causing denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-69199?
CVE-2025-69199 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in pterodactyl panel, published on 19 Jan 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Wings is the server control plane for Pterodactyl, a free, open-source game server management panel. Prior to version 1.12.0, websockets within wings lack proper rate limiting and throttling. As a result a malicious user can open a large number of connections and then request data through these sockets, causing an excessive volume of data over the network and overloading the host system memory and cpu. Additionally, there is not a limit applied to the total size of messages being sent or received, allowing a malicious user to open thousands of websocket connections and then send massive volumes of information over the socket, overloading the host network, and causing increased CPU and memory load within Wings. Version 1.12.0 patches the issue.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-69199?
3 open source packages ship an affected version, including github.com/pterodactyl/wings. It affects 1 product.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
github.com/pterodactyl/wings Go | All versions | 1.12.0 |
github.com/pterodactyl/wings Go | All versions | 1.12.0 |
github.com/pterodactyl/wings Go | All versions | 1.12.0 |
Products include Pterodactyl Wings.
How do I fix CVE-2025-69199?
Upgrade github.com/pterodactyl/wings to 1.12.0 or later.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2025-69199 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-69199 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in pterodactyl panel
- CVE-2024-27102 Improper isolation of server file access in github.com/pterodactyl/wings
- CVE-2023-25168 Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following allowing the deletion of files and directories on the host system in wings
- CVE-2023-32080 Wings vulnerable to escape to host from installation container
- CVE-2024-34066 Arbitrary File Write/Read in Pterodactyl wings
- CVE-2023-25152 Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following in github.com/pterodactyl/wings
Sources
Also known as GHSA-8w7m-w749-rx98, GO-2026-4331.