cve-2026-44160

HIGH CVSS 7.5 cvelistv5
Description

Fluentd collects events from various data sources and writes them to files, RDBMS, NoSQL, IaaS, SaaS, Hadoop and so on. Prior to 1.19.3, Fluentd's in_http and in_forward plugins support gzip-compressed data but enforce limits only on compressed payloads through settings such as body_size_limit and chunk_size_limit, allowing crafted compressed payloads to decompress in memory to an excessive size and cause denial of service through memory exhaustion. This issue is fixed in version 1.19.3.

Timeline
Published
2026-07-08 21:24 UTC
Last Modified
2026-07-09
CVSS Details
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
Affected Products
  • fluent fluentd
Weaknesses (CWE)
SSVC (CISA Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization) CISA Coordinator v2.0.3
Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical Impact
partial
Decision timestamp
2026-07-09T19:34:49.901088Z

What is SSVC? — CISA's vulnerability-prioritisation framework using a decision tree rather than a single score.

References
Linked Vulnerabilities

No linked vulnerabilities found.

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