Medium 6.5Published Jul 17, 2026

CVE-2026-47183Zeroconf: Unbounded exception-dedup state retains packet buffers via traceback frame locals, enabling LAN-local memory exhaustion

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 26, 2026, 5:40 PM ET)

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Zeroconf is a pure Python implementation of multicast DNS service discovery. Prior to 0.149.6, DNSIncoming._log_exception_debug and the four QuietLogger exception-dedup methods stored an unbounded _seen_logs dictionary keyed by attacker-influenced IncomingDecodeError messages, retaining sys.exc_info() tracebacks whose frame locals kept raw packet self.data buffers and allowing unauthenticated hosts on the local link over UDP/5353 (224.0.0.251 / ff02::fb) to drive memory growth until mDNS-dependent features degrade or the process is OOM-killed. This issue is fixed in version 0.149.6.

CVSS: 6.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-400
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: GitHub_M
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Jul 17, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

python-zeroconf python-zeroconf python_zeroconf:python_zeroconf (from the name)	before 0.149.6	CNA record
paulsm zeroconf paulsm:zeroconf	before 0.149.6	NVD

References

References

https://github.com/python-zeroconf/python-zeroconf/security/advisories/GHSA-phvx-9mgw-67r5	x-refsource-confirm, vendor-advisory, patch
https://github.com/python-zeroconf/python-zeroconf/issues/1714	x-refsource-misc, issue-tracking, patch
https://github.com/python-zeroconf/python-zeroconf/pull/1717	x-refsource-misc, issue-tracking, patch
https://github.com/python-zeroconf/python-zeroconf/commit/95561e28b24922358f1991e38e3a86d70d72dcec	x-refsource-misc, patch
https://github.com/python-zeroconf/python-zeroconf/releases/tag/0.149.6	x-refsource-misc, release-notes

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