# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-85220"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-21T13:13:53.053Z"
updatedAt: "2026-09-21T14:48:17.169Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-85220"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-85220.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-85220"
title: "Denial-of-Service in the Thinkst Canary Redis service"
summary: "A vulnerability in the Thinkst Canary honeypot Redis service allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute a Denial-of-Service attack against the honeypot.\n\nThe vulnerability is accessible when the Redis service is enabled only.\n\nThe Canary is NOT affected if the Redis service is disabled.\n\nThinkst has addressed this issue on all supported platforms.\n\nNew 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.\n\nWorkarounds are available for customers unable to update at this time."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"5.1.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"custom"},{"version":"5.2.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"custom"},{"version":"5.3.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"custom"},{"version":"5.4.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"custom"},{"version":"5.5.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"custom"},{"version":"5.6.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"custom"},{"version":"5.7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"custom"},{"version":"5.8.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"custom"},{"version":"5.9.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"custom"},{"version":"5.10.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"custom"},{"version":"5.11.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"custom"}],"vendor":"Thinkst Applied Research","product":"Canary","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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