CVE-2026-77619

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

HIGH
8.7
CVSS Score
Published: September 22, 2026 at 03:15 PM UTC
Updated: September 24, 2026 at 09:37 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorVector

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Severity
HIGH8.7
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%
SSVC
No known exploit

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.

Affected

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

v < 0.57.0
Affected range stops below 0.57.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitAutomatablePartial impact

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CVSS

8.7HIGHGitHub_M
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusAWAITING ANALYSIS
CWE
CWE-130CWE-789

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