CVE-2025-8396: temporal oss server
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2025-8396 is a medium (CVSS 6.9) vulnerability in temporal oss server. EPSS estimates a 0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 32.9% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 6.9, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 3 · Related 6Timeline
- 15-09-2025PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 15-09-2025Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
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.
CVSS metrics
5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version- OSV · WolfiEcosystem advisory · calculated6.9MediumCVSS: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
- OSV · GoEcosystem advisory · calculated6.9MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L
- OSV · ChainguardEcosystem advisory · calculated6.9MediumCVSS: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
- NVDNIST6.9MediumCVSS: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 trend
Probability
0.39%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
33%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 0.39% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.
Not in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Chainguard4 products
- temporal< 1.4.1-r3
- temporal-compat< 1.4.1-r3
- temporal-compat-fips< 1.4.1-r3
- temporal-fips< 1.4.1-r3
Wolfi2 products
- temporal< 1.4.1-r3
- temporal-compat< 1.4.1-r3
Go.temporal.io1 product
- server< 1.26.3 | ≥ 1.27.0-126.0, < 1.27.3 | ≥ 1.28.0-129.0, < 1.28.1
Temporal1 product
- oss server< 1.26.3 | ≥ 1.27.0, < 1.27.3 | ≥ 1.28.0, < 1.28.1
4 vendors · 8 products