CVE-2026-70635

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

HIGH
7.1
CVSS Score
Published: August 6, 2026 at 04:54 PM UTC
Updated: October 24, 2026 at 03:10 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorTimescaledb

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Severity
HIGH7.1
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
SSVC
No known exploit

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v ≤ 2.29.1
Vendor states this is fixed in 517c13e7cc6afadb4a7deaa7a5a5a29065e5b5a3 (unaffected)

SSVC — Action Prioritization

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CVSS

7.1HIGHVulnCheck
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-125CWE-129

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