CVE-2026-85220 PUBLISHED

Denial-of-Service in the Thinkst Canary Redis service

Assigner: ThinkstAppliedResearch
Reserved: 03.09.2026 Published: 21.09.2026 Updated: 21.09.2026

A vulnerability in the Thinkst Canary honeypot Redis service allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute a Denial-of-Service attack against the honeypot.

The vulnerability is accessible when the Redis service is enabled only.

The Canary is NOT affected if the Redis service is disabled.

Thinkst has addressed this issue on all supported platforms.

New update files to address this issue are available on all platforms except Docker. For Docker customers, a new Docker image has been published which includes the patch. Customers with automatic updates enabled already have updates in distribution. If automatic updates are disabled, customers are advised to update their Canaries.

Workarounds are available for customers unable to update at this time.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS Score: 3.7

Product Status

Vendor Thinkst Applied Research
Product Canary
Versions Default: unaffected
  • Version 5.1.2 is unaffected
  • Version 5.2.2 is unaffected
  • Version 5.3.2 is unaffected
  • Version 5.4.2 is unaffected
  • Version 5.5.2 is unaffected
  • Version 5.6.4 is unaffected
  • Version 5.7.2 is unaffected
  • Version 5.8.2 is unaffected
  • Version 5.9.2 is unaffected
  • Version 5.10.2 is unaffected
  • Version 5.11.2 is unaffected

Workarounds

  • Disable the Redis service

Solutions

Canary is available across multiple platforms, each with its own version number. The table below shows the first affected and patched versions for all Canary platforms.

Platform | First Vulnerable Canary Release | First Fixed Canary Release ------------------+---------------------------------+---------------------------- AWS EC2 | 2.0.2 | 5.3.2 Docker | 3.7.1 | 5.7.2 GCP | 2.2.3 | 5.4.2 Hardware | 1.0 | 5.1.2 Microsoft Azure | 2.2.9 | 5.6.4 Microsoft Hyper-V | 2.3.2 | 5.5.2 Nutanix | 4.9.0 | 5.9.2 OCI | 3.11.10 | 5.11.2 OpenStack | 3.8.9 | 5.8.2 Tailscale | 2.2.1 | 5.3.2 VMware ESXi | 2.0.2 | 5.2.2

Credits

  • Teddy Thobane (rootkiTed) finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-770 Allocation of resources without limits or throttling CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-130 Excessive Allocation