CVE-2026-70635

TimescaleDB 2.29.1 Out-of-Bounds Read DoS via Bulk Dictionary Decompression Negative Index

State
Published
Severity
7.1 High
Published
Aug 6, 2026
Updated
Aug 14, 2026
Reserved
Aug 4, 2026

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Description

TimescaleDB through 2.29.1, fixed in commit 517c13e, contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability that allows authenticated attackers to cause query-result integrity failures or backend crashes by supplying a crafted Simple8b selector-11 value, which is stored in the signed int16 Arrow dictionary-index type and bypasses index validation checks in bulk text dictionary decompression. Attackers with direct DML access to a non-frozen physical compressed hypertable relation can trigger an out-of-bounds read before the base of the live offsets array through the VectorAgg single-text hashing strategy, resulting in incorrect aggregation output, backend SIGSEGV, or PostgreSQL crash recovery depending on build configuration.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.07.1 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NVulnCheck
3.17.1 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:HVulnCheck

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
timescaledbtimescale
  • 2.29.1 and earlierAffected
  • 517c13e7cc6afadb4a7deaa7a5a5a29065e5b5a3Not affected

References

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