Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
-
AccessAuthenticate as administrator
-
DeliveryAccess network endpoint
-
ExploitSend resource-intensive request
-
ExecutionExhaust system resources
-
ImpactService becomes unavailable
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A06:2025 - Insecure Design
ASVS 5.0
V2 - Validation and Business Logic Resource consumption limits
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Impact The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires high-privilege administrator authentication (PR:H per CVSS vector) to the Tanium Interact platform. No special product configuration or feature enablement is referenced in available data. The vulnerability is accessible via network (AV:N) without requiring user interaction (UI:N). The primary exploitation barrier is the requirement for valid high-privilege administrative credentials; unauthenticated remote attackers cannot trigger this vulnerability. This makes real-world exploitation unlikely in organizations maintaining proper credential hygiene and administrative access controls. |
| Impact | The real-world risk is low despite the Denial of Service classification. Multiple limiting factors significantly reduce exploitability: the CVSS vector requires PR:H (high-privilege authentication), meaning only administrators can trigger the vulnerability; AC:L indicates low attack complexity once authenticated, but authentication itself is a substantial barrier; no confidentiality or integrity impact (C:N/I:N) limits damage to service availability only; CVSS base score of 2.7 places this in the lowest severity tier. The absence of a public exploit, KEV listing, or vendor disclosure of active exploitation further suggests this is a theoretical risk rather than a practical threat. This is characteristic of a vulnerability that impacts operational resilience rather than security posture-relevant for SLA protection and availability engineering but not for breach prevention. Organizations should prioritize patching based on operational continuity requirements, not perceived external threat. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An authenticated administrator with high-level privileges on the Tanium Interact platform sends a crafted network request to a resource-intensive endpoint, exhausting system resources and causing the service to become unresponsive to legitimate requests, resulting in temporary unavailability of endpoint management capabilities. |
Get an e-mail when this CVE is exploited, patched or re-scored. Free account.
Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Apr 22, 2026
Uncontrolled resource consumption in Tanium Interact allows authenticated high-privilege administrators to trigger a denial of service condition through network-accessible endpoints. The vulnerability requires high-level administrative privileges (PR:H) and produces only availability impact with no confidentiality or integrity compromise. CVSS base score of 2.7 reflects the severe privilege barrier and limited impact scope.
RemediationAI
Consult Tanium security advisory TAN-2026-010 at https://security.tanium.com/TAN-2026-010 for the specific patched version applicable to your deployment. Apply the vendor-released patch to all affected Tanium Interact instances once released versions are identified. Interim mitigation strategies include restricting network access to Interact management interfaces to trusted administrative networks only (network segmentation), implementing rate limiting on resource-intensive API endpoints if configurable within Interact administration panels, and monitoring resource consumption metrics (CPU, memory, disk) for anomalous spikes that could indicate exploitation attempts. These compensating controls preserve functionality while reducing the attack surface but do not address the underlying resource consumption flaw; patching remains the primary remediation path.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
Affects your stack
Affects 1 package in euvd
Checking this CVE against your own stacks and servers is part of the Basic plan and up.
Technical ContextAI · show details
Tanium Interact is a platform for endpoint management and orchestration. The vulnerability involves CWE-400 (uncontrolled resource consumption), a weakness where the application fails to properly limit resource allocation in response to requests. This typically manifests as insufficient input validation or rate limiting on resource-intensive operations accessible through network interfaces. The affected product uses CPE cpe:2.3:a:tanium:interact:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, indicating the vulnerability affects multiple versions of the Interact product line. Network-accessible endpoints (AV:N) combined with resource consumption flaws suggest the vulnerability may involve API endpoints, daemon services, or management interfaces exposed to network traffic.
Know when Tanium gets its next vulnerability
- Watch products and get an email when something new is published
- Check this CVE against your own stack and servers
- Exploit and PoC references, threat intelligence from 22 sources
No credit card · 7-day full trial
Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Primary rating from NVD · only source for this CVE.
CVSS VectorNVD
Lifecycle Timeline
5DescriptionNVD
Tanium addressed an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in Interact.
Threat Intelligence Overview
How this decision was reached
The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.
What every action level means
SSVC AssessmentENISA
Priority Score
Attack Technique
Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.
SQL injection in the Tanium Asset module lets an authenticated, high-privilege user read and modify data in the underlyi
Unauthorized OS command execution in Tanium Connect allows an attacker holding low-privilege authenticated access to run
OS command injection in Tanium Connect lets an authenticated, low-privileged user execute arbitrary commands on the unde
Tanium addressed an improper input validation vulnerability in Deploy. [CVSS 8.8 HIGH]
Command injection in Tanium Certificate Manager allows an authenticated attacker with low-level access to execute unauth
Command injection in Tanium Threat Response allows an authenticated low-privilege attacker to execute unauthorized code
SQL injection in Tanium Threat Response (CVSS 3.1 base score 8.8, AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) allows a low-priv
Path traversal in Tanium Comply allows authenticated low-privileged network users to read files outside the module's int
Path traversal in Tanium Comply exposes all authenticated low-privilege users to a scope-changing arbitrary file write a
SQL injection in Tanium Comply (CWE-89) allows a network-accessible, unauthenticated attacker - contingent on user inter
Improper access controls (CWE-862, Missing Authorization) in Tanium Comply allow an authenticated low-privileged user to
Improper access controls in Tanium Comply allow an authenticated low-privilege user to perform unauthorized operations w
EUVD-2026-24597
GHSA-7fxx-2q9x-8wqf
NVD
CVE.org
EPSS
Vulnrichment
VulDB
Exploit-DB