CVE-2026-42154 (GCVE-0-2026-42154)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-04 18:13 – Updated: 2026-05-04 20:19
VLAI?
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)
CWE
Assigner
References
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Impacted products
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| prometheus | prometheus |
Affected:
< 3.5.3
Affected: >= 3.6.0, < 3.11.3 |
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Nomenclature
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