CVE-2026-44296
Deferred Deferred - Pending Action
BaseFortify

Publication date: 2026-05-12

Last updated on: 2026-05-13

Assigner: GitHub, Inc.

Description
Deskflow is a keyboard and mouse sharing app. Prior to 1.26.0.167, a remote, unauthenticated denial of service (DoS) vulnerability affects Deskflow servers running with TLS enabled (the default). When any TCP peer connects to the listening port and its first bytes do not parse as a valid TLS ClientHello, SecureSocket::secureAccept enters its fatal-error branch and calls Arch::sleep(1) (a blocking 1-second sleep) on the multiplexer worker thread. That thread services every socket on the server, including established TLS clients delivering mouse motion, keyboard events, and clipboard updates. A single failed handshake therefore stalls input delivery to all connected screens for ~1 second, and a sustained drip of malformed connections (β‰₯ 1/s) makes the server effectively unusable while the attack persists. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.26.0.167.
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Published
2026-05-12
Last Modified
2026-05-13
Generated
2026-05-20
EPSS Evaluated
2026-05-19
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CWE ID Description
CWE-400 The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.
CWE-405 The product does not properly control situations in which an adversary can cause the product to consume or produce excessive resources without requiring the adversary to invest equivalent work or otherwise prove authorization, i.e., the adversary's influence is "asymmetric."
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