VulnerabilityAwaiting Analysis

CVE-2026-83536

This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to initiate multiple slow HTTP header connections.

MEDIUM 5.3EPSS 0.31%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.31%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

A flaw was found in openstack-network-exporter. The HTTP server within the component is configured without essential timeout settings, such as ReadHeaderTimeout. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to initiate multiple slow HTTP header connections. By trickling header bytes, the attacker can exhaust server resources, specifically file descriptors, leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) that prevents legitimate Prometheus metric scraping and alerting.

CVSS 3.1: 5.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS: 0.31% probability · 24th percentile
Public exploits: None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-400
Source: secalert@redhat.com

EPSS trend

EPSS moved from 0.3% on 13 October 2026 to 0.3% on 26 October 2026.

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.