A vulnerability in the Thinkst Canary honeypot Redis service allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute a Denial-of-Service attack against the honeypot.

The vulnerability is accessible when the Redis service is enabled only.

The Canary is NOT affected if the Redis service is disabled.

Thinkst has addressed this issue on all supported platforms.

New update files to address this issue are available on all platforms except Docker. For Docker customers, a new Docker image has been published which includes the patch. Customers with automatic updates enabled already have updates in distribution. If automatic updates are disabled, customers are advised to update their Canaries.

Workarounds are available for customers unable to update at this time.

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Solution

Canary is available across multiple platforms, each with its own version number. The table below shows the first affected and patched versions for all Canary platforms. Platform | First Vulnerable Canary Release | First Fixed Canary Release ------------------+---------------------------------+---------------------------- AWS EC2 | 2.0.2 | 5.3.2 Docker | 3.7.1 | 5.7.2 GCP | 2.2.3 | 5.4.2 Hardware | 1.0 | 5.1.2 Microsoft Azure | 2.2.9 | 5.6.4 Microsoft Hyper-V | 2.3.2 | 5.5.2 Nutanix | 4.9.0 | 5.9.2 OCI | 3.11.10 | 5.11.2 OpenStack | 3.8.9 | 5.8.2 Tailscale | 2.2.1 | 5.3.2 VMware ESXi | 2.0.2 | 5.2.2


Workaround

* Disable the Redis service

History

Mon, 21 Sep 2026 15:30:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:30:00 +0000

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Description A vulnerability in the Thinkst Canary honeypot Redis service allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute a Denial-of-Service attack against the honeypot. The vulnerability is accessible when the Redis service is enabled only. The Canary is NOT affected if the Redis service is disabled. Thinkst has addressed this issue on all supported platforms. New update files to address this issue are available on all platforms except Docker. For Docker customers, a new Docker image has been published which includes the patch. Customers with automatic updates enabled already have updates in distribution. If automatic updates are disabled, customers are advised to update their Canaries. Workarounds are available for customers unable to update at this time.
Title Denial-of-Service in the Thinkst Canary Redis service
Weaknesses CWE-770
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 3.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: ThinkstAppliedResearch

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-21T14:48:17.169Z

Reserved: 2026-09-03T14:08:21.464Z

Link: CVE-2026-85220

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-21T14:40:18.385Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-21T14:17:22.007

Modified: 2026-09-21T15:17:32.853

Link: CVE-2026-85220

cve-icon Redhat

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