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Vulnerabilities CVE-2026-42154

CVE-2026-42154

High
Open
TLP:CLEAR

Prometheus: remote read endpoint allows denial of service via crafted snappy payload

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Critical Infrastructure DDoS

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Description

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring system and time series database. Prior to versions 3.5.3 and 3.11.3, the remote read endpoint (/api/v1/read) does not validate the declared decoded length in a snappy-compressed request body before allocating memory. An unauthenticated attacker can send a small payload that causes a huge heap allocation per request. Under concurrent load this can exhaust available memory and crash the Prometheus process. This issue has been patched in versions 3.5.3 and 3.11.3.

Details

CVSS Score
7.5
EPSS Score
0.81%

53.7th percentile

CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Confidence
90%
Published
May 4, 2026
Last Modified
Aug 11, 2026
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