CVE-2026-77619

Vector: Unauthenticated denial of service in the `logstash` source via unbounded memory allocation.

State
Published
Severity
8.7 High
Published
Sep 22, 2026
Updated
Sep 22, 2026
Reserved
Aug 20, 2026

Read the record on cve.org

Description

Vector is a high-performance observability data pipeline. From 0.15.0 until 0.57.0, the logstash source reads a 32-bit compressed-frame length from the network and uses it to size an in-memory buffer without an upper bound. An unauthenticated remote peer that can reach the default 0.0.0.0:5044 listener can send a minimal frame declaring a multi-gigabyte payload, causing an excessive allocation that can abort Vector or invoke the host OOM killer. Because the allocation follows the declared length rather than bytes transmitted, the attacker has low resource cost, and process termination can halt log ingestion for every tenant on a shared pipeline. This issue is fixed in version 0.57.0.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.08.7 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-130 Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency
  • CWE-789 Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value

Affected Products

ProductVersions
vectorvectordotdev
  • >= 0.15.0, < 0.57.0Affected

References

Every record here comes from the CVE Program’s CVE List. © 1999–2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. The records are reproduced under the CVE Program terms of use.