CVE-2026-87962
Description
t-digest versions 3.1 through 3.3 contain a denial of service vulnerability in MergingDigest.fromBytes that fails to validate length and capacity fields from serialized data. Attackers can supply crafted serialized digests with mismatched header fields to trigger ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException or NegativeArraySizeException, aborting the parsing thread.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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Propose a mitigation on Community Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- https://github.com/tdunning/t-digest
- https://github.com/tdunning/t-digest/blob/7905f3d2ad18e7d7176811147d1316a3e23d7061/core/src/main/java/com/tdunning/math/stats/MergingDigest.java
- https://github.com/tdunning/t-digest/issues/227
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/t-digest-3.1-through-3.3-denial-of-service-via-unvalidated-length-fields-in-mergingdigest-frombytes
CWEs
CWE-1284
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.