CVE-2025-8396Insufficiently specific bounds checking on authorization header could lead to denial of service in the Temporal server on all platforms…
- 6.9MediumCVSS base score
- 0.39%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 67% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Insufficiently specific bounds checking on authorization header could lead to denial of service in the Temporal server on all platforms due to excessive memory allocation.This issue affects all platforms and versions of OSS Server prior to 1.26.3, 1.27.3, and 1.28.1 (i.e., fixed in 1.26.3, 1.27.3, and 1.28.1 and later). Temporal Cloud services are not impacted.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Temporal
- 47 days later
· 47 days later
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| TemporalCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | Medium6.9 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/S:N/AU:Y |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 4.0 | Medium6.9 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:N/AU:Y/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.39% · top 67% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.9.
Affected products
- affected < 1.26.3
- affected 1.27.0 – < 1.27.3
- affected 1.28.0 – < 1.28.1
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogo.temporal.io/serverGHSA-p768-c3pr-6459 (opens in a new tab)
What to do
Solution: Upgrade to a fixed release: v1.26.3, v1.27.3, v1.28.1 or later (latest recommended).
Workaround: Use mTLS, or bring your own claim mapper.
References
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-29200 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-p768-c3pr-6459 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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