Fluent Bit: Remote stack buffer overflow in Fluent Bit `out_forward` Secure-Forward `PONG` handler
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.
BIT-fluent-bit-2026-61674
Primary source · Revision 1
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Security context
Source reference: osv:BIT-fluent-bit-2026-61674
fluent-bit
Source reference: /affected/0/package/name
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- 5.0.8
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/affected/0/ranges - Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
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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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- Publisher date