CVE-2026-42154

Published: Mag 04, 2026 Last Modified: Mag 04, 2026

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HIGH 7,5

Source: [email protected]

Attack Vector: network

Attack Complexity: low

Privileges Required: none

User Interaction: none

Scope: unchanged

Confidentiality: none

Integrity: none

Availability: high

Description

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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.

400

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Draft

Abstraction: Class Structure: Simple

Common Consequences

Security Scopes Affected:

Availability Access Control Other

Potential Impacts:

Dos: Crash, Exit, Or Restart Dos: Resource Consumption (Cpu) Dos: Resource Consumption (Memory) Dos: Resource Consumption (Other) Bypass Protection Mechanism Other