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CVE-2026-42154

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-42154

Severity

7.5

High

CVSS V3

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Summary

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

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.

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