What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-31866?

CVE-2026-31866 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.5 (High). CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H. EPSS exploitation probability: 0.1%.

Which versions of Kubernetes are affected by CVE-2026-31866?

flagd, a feature flag service likely used in production environments, is vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack that requires no authentication.. A patch is available.

How to fix or mitigate CVE-2026-31866?

Within 24 hours: Identify all instances of flagd in use and their versions; determine if any run version <0.14.2 and are internet-accessible. Within 7 days: Implement network-level mitigations (WAF rules limiting request body size, rate limiting, network segmentation) and monitor for suspicious traffic patterns. Within 30 days: Evaluate upgrade to flagd 0.14.2 once released, or migrate to alternative feature flag solutions if patch timeline extends beyond risk tolerance.

Kubernetes CVE-2026-31866

HIGH

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770)

2026-03-11 security-advisories@github.com

GHSA-rmrf-g9r3-73pm

Kubernetes Denial Of Service Suse

7.5

CVSS 3.1 · GitHub Advisory

Severity by source

GitHub Advisory PRIMARY

7.5 HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SUSE

HIGH

qualitative

Primary rating from GitHub Advisory.

CVSS VectorGitHub Advisory

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Lifecycle Timeline

Patch released

Mar 31, 2026 - 21:13 nvd

Patch available

Analysis Generated

Mar 12, 2026 - 22:06 vuln.today

CVE Published

Mar 11, 2026 - 18:16 nvd

HIGH 7.5

DescriptionGitHub Advisory

flagd is a feature flag daemon with a Unix philosophy. Prior to 0.14.2, flagd exposes OFREP (/ofrep/v1/evaluate/...) and gRPC (evaluation.v1, evaluation.v2) endpoints for feature flag evaluation. These endpoints are designed to be publicly accessible by client applications. The evaluation context included in request payloads is read into memory without any size restriction. An attacker can send a single HTTP request with an arbitrarily large body, causing flagd to allocate a corresponding amount of memory. This leads to immediate memory exhaustion and process termination (e.g., OOMKill in Kubernetes environments). flagd does not natively enforce authentication on its evaluation endpoints. While operators may deploy flagd behind an authenticating reverse proxy or similar infrastructure, the endpoints themselves impose no access control by default. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.14.2.

AnalysisAI

Kubernetes flagd feature flag daemon versions before 0.14.2 are vulnerable to denial of service through unbounded memory allocation on publicly accessible evaluation endpoints. An unauthenticated attacker can send HTTP requests with arbitrarily large payloads to exhaust memory and crash the service. This affects deployments without external authentication controls, allowing trivial process termination in containerized environments.

Technical ContextAI

This vulnerability (CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling) affects flagd is a feature flag daemon with a Unix philosophy.. flagd is a feature flag daemon with a Unix philosophy. Prior to 0.14.2, flagd exposes OFREP (/ofrep/v1/evaluate/...) and gRPC (evaluation.v1, evaluation.v2) endpoints for feature flag evaluation. These endpoints are designed to be publicly accessible by client applications. The evaluation context included in request payloads is read into memory without any size restriction. An attacker can send a single HTTP request with an arbitrarily large body, causing flagd to allocate a corresponding amount