#9036·thanos

New release needed to fix vulnerabilities in thanos v0.42.4

Author: Devika-T-VCreated Sep 18, 2026Updated Sep 18, 2026

Vulnerabilities in the xDS RBAC authorization engine and the HTTP/2 transport server implementation in google.golang.org/grpc - GO-2026-6061, GO-2026-6061

Prior to versions 3.5.3 and 3.11.3, the remote read endpoint (/api/v1/read) does not validate the declared decoded length in a snappy-compressed request body before allocating memory. An unauthenticated attacker can send a small payload that causes a huge heap allocation per request. Under concurrent load this can exhaust available memory and crash the Prometheus process. This issue has been patched in versions 3.5.3 and 3.11.3. - CVE-2026-42154, CVE-2026-42151,

A use-after-free in the awk_sub() function (editors/awk.c) of Busybox v1.38.0 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted AWK script. - CVE-2026-38753

A heap overflow in the ifsbreakup() function (shell/ash.c) of Busybox v1.38.0 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted input. - CVE-2026-38754, CVE-2026-38755