CVE-2026-42154 (GCVE-0-2026-42154)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-04 18:13 – Updated: 2026-05-04 20:19
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Title
Prometheus: remote read endpoint allows denial of service via crafted snappy payload
Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-789 - Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
prometheus prometheus Affected: < 3.5.3
Affected: >= 3.6.0, < 3.11.3
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