CVE-2026-68911 Nicotine+: Decompression of peer messages can exhaust available memory
High 8.7
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-68911 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2026-68911 is a high-severity vulnerability in nicotine-plus, published on 29 Sep 2026.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-68911 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: nicotine-plus. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-68911/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-68911/index.md)
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-68911?
CVE-2026-68911 is a high-severity vulnerability in nicotine-plus, published on 29 Sep 2026.
Official description
Nicotine+ is a graphical client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer network. Prior to version 3.3.11, a modified remote client can send zlib-compressed peer messages containing a decompression bomb, exhausting available memory of the recipient's operating system. This issue has been patched in version 3.3.11.
Weakness: CWE-409
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-68911?
How do I fix CVE-2026-68911?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-68911 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2026-68911 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-68911 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-8w4c-p7mj-g886.