CVE-2026-61617
Received Received - Intake

Disk Quota Bypass in Pterodactyl Wings

Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-61617, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.

Publication date: 2026-08-26

Last updated on: 2026-08-26

Assigner: GitHub, Inc.

Description

Wings is the server control plane for the Pterodactyl game-server management panel. In versions up to and including 1.13.2, the SFTP write path does not enforce a server's disk quota during a transfer, allowing a tenant with SFTP write access to a single server to exhaust the host node's physical disk and take down every server on it. Wings checks available space only once, as a boolean, when the write handle is opened, using a stale cached usage value and without knowing the size of the incoming data, and it then returns a raw, unaccounted file handle that is never re-checked as the transfer proceeds. A single upload can therefore be written without bound, far beyond the configured disk limit, until the node's disk is full, and because a server stopped for exceeding its limit is not treated as suspended, SFTP writes are still accepted even after the quota is already exceeded. This issue is fixed in version 1.13.3.

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Published
2026-08-26
Last Modified
2026-08-26
Generated
2026-08-27
AI Q&A
2026-08-27
EPSS Evaluated
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Affected Vendors & Products

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Vendor Product Version / Range
pterodactyl wings to 1.13.2 (inc)
pterodactyl wings 1.13.3

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CWE-770 The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any intended restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated.
CWE-400 The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.

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Executive Summary

This vulnerability affects Wings, the server control plane for the Pterodactyl game-server management panel. In versions up to 1.13.2, the SFTP write path does not enforce a server's disk quota during file transfers. This allows a tenant with SFTP write access to fill up the host node's physical disk, potentially taking down all servers on it.

Detection Guidance

Monitor disk usage on host nodes running Wings versions up to 1.13.2. Check for unexpected disk exhaustion on nodes hosting multiple servers. Verify SFTP transfers against server disk quotas during uploads.

Impact Analysis

If you are a user or administrator of a Pterodactyl server running Wings up to 1.13.2, an attacker with SFTP access could upload files until the host node's disk is full. This could cause all servers on the node to crash or become unavailable due to disk exhaustion.

Compliance Impact

This vulnerability could lead to disk exhaustion on the host node, potentially causing service disruptions or data loss. For GDPR, this may impact availability of personal data processing systems, risking compliance with Article 32 (security of processing). For HIPAA, it could disrupt electronic protected health information (ePHI) systems, violating the Availability rule under the Security Rule.

Mitigation Strategies

Upgrade Wings to version 1.13.3 or later immediately. Suspend servers exceeding disk quotas manually until the upgrade is complete. Monitor disk usage closely during transfers.

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