Riskcovery

CVE-2026-85220

Denial-of-Service in the Thinkst Canary Redis service

State
Published
Severity
3.7 Low
Published
Sep 21, 2026
Updated
Sep 21, 2026
Reserved
Sep 3, 2026

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Description

A vulnerability in the Thinkst Canary honeypot Redis service allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute a Denial-of-Service attack against the honeypot.

The vulnerability is accessible when the Redis service is enabled only.

The Canary is NOT affected if the Redis service is disabled.

Thinkst has addressed this issue on all supported platforms.

New update files to address this issue are available on all platforms except Docker. For Docker customers, a new Docker image has been published which includes the patch. Customers with automatic updates enabled already have updates in distribution. If automatic updates are disabled, customers are advised to update their Canaries.

Workarounds are available for customers unable to update at this time.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.13.7 LowCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:LThinkstAppliedResearch

Weaknesses

  • CWE-770 Allocation of resources without limits or throttling

Affected Products

ProductVersions
CanaryThinkst Applied Research
  • 5.1.2Not affected
  • 5.2.2Not affected
  • 5.3.2Not affected
  • 5.4.2Not affected
  • 5.5.2Not affected
  • 5.6.4Not affected
  • 5.7.2Not affected
  • 5.8.2Not affected
  • 5.9.2Not affected
  • 5.10.2Not affected
  • 5.11.2Not affected

References

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