Faktory: Unrecovered panic in command handlers allows full-server denial of service
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Denial of service
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-248.
Summary
Faktory is a language-agnostic background job server. In versions prior to 1.10.0, the server is vulnerable to an unauthenticated denial of service in which a single malformed command crashes the entire process. Its wire protocol is line-based, and several command handlers slice or index the received line at a fixed offset, such as cmd[5:] for PUSH or qs[0] for QUEUE, without checking that a payload is present. Sending a bare verb with no payload, for example PUSH, ACK, FAIL, BEAT, PUSHB, or QUEUE, triggers a Go slice or index out-of-range panic. Because the codebase has no recover() anywhere in the command-dispatch path, an unrecovered panic in a handler goroutine terminates the whole Go process rather than just that connection, instantly disconnecting every other client, worker, and in-flight job. The attack requires only a connection to the command port and completion of the trivial handshake, with no credentials when no password is configured, and can be repeated to keep the service down indefinitely. This issue is fixed in version 1.10.0.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
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Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| contribsys | faktory | before 1.10.0 | 1.10.0 | Patch available | CNA |
- faktory Vendorcontribsys Affected before 1.10.0 Fixed in 1.10.0 Patch available CNA
Remediation
- Fix · CNA faktory (contribsys) Fixed in 1.10.0
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-63403
References
More contribsys vulnerabilities
- TI-2023-01778 Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Reflected in sidekiq/sidekiq CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.6
- TI-2023-18909 Faktory Web Dashboard can lead to denial of service(DOS) via malicious user input CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2023-25350 Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in Contribsys Sidekiq v.6.5.8 allows a remote attacker… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1
- TI-2023-25349 Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in Contribsys Sidekiq v.6.5.8 allows a remote attacker… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1
- TI-2023-11365 Uncontrolled resource consumption in sidekiq CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2022-07850 In api.rb in Sidekiq before 5.2.10 and 6.4.0, there is no limit on the number of days… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
Sources
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