Medium (6.5) in linkerd. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in github.com/linkerd/linkerd2 0.0.0-20250212165942-faa3f617eef5.
In Linkerd edge releases before edge-25.2.1, and Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd releases 2.13.0–2.13.7, 2.14.0–2.14.10, 2.15.0–2.15.7, 2.16.0–2.16.4, and 2.17.0–2.17.1, resource exhaustion can occur for Linkerd proxy metrics.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
6.5 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
EPSS
0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 26% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)