Algernon is a small self-contained pure-Go web server. Prior to 1.17.6, in engine/luahandler.go, the sync.RWMutex protecting LoadCommonFunctions is released before L.Push() and L.PCall() execute. Since gopher-lua's LState is explicitly not goroutine-safe, concurrent requests race on the shared state causing Lua VM corruption. The Go race detector confirms this immediately under modest concurrency (ab -n 1000 -c 100). This vulnerability is fixed in 1.17.6.
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Tue, 26 May 2026 17:00:00 +0000
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| Description | Algernon is a small self-contained pure-Go web server. Prior to 1.17.6, in engine/luahandler.go, the sync.RWMutex protecting LoadCommonFunctions is released before L.Push() and L.PCall() execute. Since gopher-lua's LState is explicitly not goroutine-safe, concurrent requests race on the shared state causing Lua VM corruption. The Go race detector confirms this immediately under modest concurrency (ab -n 1000 -c 100). This vulnerability is fixed in 1.17.6. | |
| Title | Algernon: Race Condition in handle() shared LState | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-362 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
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Updated: 2026-05-26T16:31:55.696Z
Reserved: 2026-05-04T20:24:31.916Z
Link: CVE-2026-43981
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-05-26T17:16:45.950
Modified: 2026-05-26T17:16:45.950
Link: CVE-2026-43981
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