Vulnerability · Published Aug 18, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2026-62357DragonflyDB `CMS.INITBYDIM` integer overflow leads to a remote, attacker-controlled heap out-of-bounds write

High 8.8

In plain English

A high-severity integer overflow in dragonfly from dragonflydb. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 45% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 4.0)8.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 55.4% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Dragonfly is an in-memory data store built for modern application workloads. Prior to 1.40.0, CMS.INITBYDIM and CMS.INITBYPROB accept dimensions whose width times depth times sizeof(int64_t) overflows in src/core/cms.cc, allocating an undersized counter buffer while CMS.INCRBY and CMS.QUERY use the unbounded dimensions, which allows an unauthenticated remote client to corrupt or disclose adjacent heap memory and crash the server. This issue is fixed in version 1.40.0.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
dragonflydb dragonfly < 1.40.0

Weakness: CWE-190 · Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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