Description
Tanium addressed a denial of service vulnerability in Enforce.
Published: 2026-10-27
Score: 5.3 Medium
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: Denial of Service
Action: Apply Patch
AI Analysis

Impact

The vulnerability is a denial of service flaw in Tanium Enforce. The weakness is a memory allocation issue as identified by CWE-770. No additional details on the exploitation mechanism are provided in the advisory, and the description only states that Tanium has addressed the vulnerability.

Affected Systems

The flaw affects Tanium Enforce. No specific version information is provided by the CNA, so any deployment of Tanium Enforce could potentially be impacted until an official fix is released.

Risk and Exploitability

The CVSS score of 5.3 indicates moderate severity. The EPSS score is not available, and the vulnerability is not listed in CISA’s KEV catalog, suggesting no widespread exploitation at this time. The likely attack vector is network access to the Enforce service, but this is inferred because the description does not detail how the flaw is triggered.

Generated by OpenCVE AI on October 27, 2026 at 19:03 UTC.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record.

OpenCVE Recommended Actions

  • Apply the latest Tanium Enforce patch released by the vendor.
  • Restrict inbound traffic to the Enforce service with firewall rules or network segmentation.
  • Monitor Enforce logs for abnormal resource usage or repeated service restarts.

Generated by OpenCVE AI on October 27, 2026 at 19:03 UTC.

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Advisories

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References
History

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 19:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Tanium
Tanium enforce
Vendors & Products Tanium
Tanium enforce

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 17:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description Tanium addressed a denial of service vulnerability in Enforce.
Title Tanium addressed a denial of service vulnerability in Enforce.
Weaknesses CWE-770
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Tanium

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-27T17:34:47.970Z

Reserved: 2026-10-26T19:15:06.796Z

Link: CVE-2026-116657

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-10-27T18:17:34.610

Modified: 2026-10-27T18:17:34.610

Link: CVE-2026-116657

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-10-27T19:15:08Z

Weaknesses
  • CWE-770

    Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling