Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) Affecting kube-logging-operator package, versions <6.7.0-r5


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.48% (39th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-WOLFILATEST-KUBELOGGINGOPERATOR-17812322
  • published3 Jul 2026
  • disclosed14 Sept 2026

Introduced: 3 Jul 2026

CVE-2026-44162  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-409  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Wolfi kube-logging-operator to version 6.7.0-r5 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kube-logging-operator package and not the kube-logging-operator package as distributed by Wolfi. See How to fix? for Wolfi relevant fixed versions and status.

fluent-plugin-s3 is an Amazon S3 input and output plugin for Fluentd. From 0.7.0 to 1.8.4, the in_s3 input plugin reads the entire decompressed payload of gzip, lzma2, and lzop objects into memory without enforcing a decompression_size_limit. An attacker with permission to upload objects to the monitored S3 bucket can provide a highly compressed object that expands excessively when Fluentd processes it. The resulting memory exhaustion can cause the operating system to terminate the Fluentd process and disrupt all log collection on the affected node. This issue is fixed in version 1.8.5.