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Fluent Bit: Remote stack buffer overflow in Fluent Bit `out_forward` Secure-Forward `PONG` handler

Type: advisorySource: OSV1 source record

Fluent Bit is a fast and lightweight logs, metrics, and traces processor for Linux, BSD, macOS, and Windows. From 0.11.0 until 5.0.8, plugins/out_forward/forward.c secure_forward_pong copies the server-controlled PONG[2] reason into the 32-byte stack buffer msg with memcpy without checking its MessagePack type or length. An attacker who controls or can impersonate an out_forward Secure Forward destination configured with Shared_Key or Empty_Shared_Key can send an oversized reason during the first handshake and overwrite stack control data. Protected builds reliably terminate, while builds without a stack canary or with a disclosure can allow remote code execution as the Fluent Bit process user. When the opt-in --supervisor mode is used, fork-only respawns preserve the canary and address layout, allowing repeated crash-or-survive probes to support code execution on a hardened build; ordinary exec-based or service-manager restarts do not preserve that state. This issue is fixed in version 5.0.8.

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BIT-fluent-bit-2026-61674

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Security context

Source reference: osv:BIT-fluent-bit-2026-61674

fluent-bit

Source reference: /affected/0/package/name

Affected versions
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Fixed versions
5.0.8

Source reference: /affected/0/ranges

Prerequisites
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Structured affected-version data

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[
  {
    "ranges": [
      {
        "type": "SEMVER",
        "events": [
          {
            "introduced": "0.11.0"
          },
          {
            "fixed": "5.0.8"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "package": {
      "name": "fluent-bit",
      "purl": "pkg:bitnami/fluent-bit",
      "ecosystem": "Bitnami"
    },
    "severity": [
      {
        "type": "CVSS_V4",
        "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X"
      }
    ],
    "database_specific": {
      "source": "https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/fluent-bit/BIT-fluent-bit-2026-61674.json"
    }
  }
]
Related CVEs
CVE-2026-61674

Source reference: /aliases

Publisher severity

critical

Source reference: /database_specific/severity

Event
#25983 · Revision 1
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