CVE-2026-42154
Prometheus: remote read endpoint allows denial of service via crafted snappy payload
- Published
- May 4, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 10, 2026
- Assigning CNA
- GitHub_M
- Evidence observed
- Aug 8, 2026
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HLow · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 55.0%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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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.
Sources
1Proof-of-concept exploit for CVE-2026-42154, a denial-of-service vulnerability in Prometheus Remote Read endpoint via crafted Snappy-compressed requests.
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