About “Fluent Bit”

A curated feed of “Fluent Bit”-related CVEs appears below. We currently track 18 CVEs for this tag (all time). In the last 365 days, 5 were published. Average CVSS is 7.4 (all time; 7.0 over 365d), and 72% are rated High/Critical (all time). Top CWEs (last 365 days): CWE-1287 - Improper Validation of Specified Type of Input, CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal'), CWE-120 - Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow').

In our taxonomy this topic maps to a LOW impact class. Vendor advisories and release notes are key. Verify compatibility matrices, prefer supported long term versions, and stage rollouts with monitoring. Use the filters below to sort by CVSS, risk and CWE. Each detail page highlights vendor advisories and mitigation tips.

Support & lifecycle: fluent-bit

This table shows recent release cycles and their projected end-of-life. Data source: endoflife.date.

CycleReleaseLatestEOLLTS
5.05.0.6-
4.24.2.4 Soon
4.14.1.2 Expired
4.04.0.14 Expired
3.23.2.10 Expired
3.13.1.10 Expired
3.03.0.7 Expired
2.22.2.3 Expired
2.12.1.10 Expired
2.02.0.14 Expired
1.91.9.10 Expired
1.81.8.15 Expired
1.71.7.9- Expired
1.61.6.10- Expired
1.51.5.7- Expired
1.41.4.6- Expired
1.31.3.11- Expired
1.21.2.2- Expired
1.11.1.3- Expired
1.01.0.6- Expired
0.140.14.9- Expired
0.130.13.8- Expired
0.120.12.19- Expired
0.110.11.17- Expired
0.100.10.1- Expired

Maintained Soon (≤ 180 days) Expired

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CVSS ≥ 0.0
2025-11-24
Medium

CVE-2025-12978

Fluent Bit in_http, in_splunk, and in_elasticsearch input plugins contain a flaw in the tag_key validation logic that fails to enforce exact key-length matching. This allows crafted inputs where a ta…

Critical

CVE-2025-12977

Fluent Bit in_http, in_splunk, and in_elasticsearch input plugins fail to sanitize tag_key inputs. An attacker with network access or the ability to write records into Splunk or Elasticsearch can sup…

Medium

CVE-2025-12972

Fluent Bit out_file plugin does not properly sanitize tag values when deriving output file names. When the File option is omitted, the plugin uses untrusted tag input to construct file paths. This al…

High

CVE-2025-12970

The extract_name function in Fluent Bit in_docker input plugin copies container names into a fixed size stack buffer without validating length. An attacker who can create containers or control contai…

Medium

CVE-2025-12969

Fluent Bit in_forward input plugin does not properly enforce the security.users authentication mechanism under certain configuration conditions. This allows remote attackers with network access to th…

2025-04-07
Medium

CVE-2025-29478

An issue in fluent-bit v.3.7.2 allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service via the cfl_list_size in cfl_list.h:165.

2025-04-04
Medium

CVE-2025-29477

An issue in fluent-bit v.3.7.2 allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service via the function consume_event.

2025-02-18
High

CVE-2024-50609

An issue was discovered in Fluent Bit 3.1.9. When the OpenTelemetry input plugin is running and listening on an IP address and port, one can send a packet with Content-Length: 0 and it crashes the se…

High

CVE-2024-50608

An issue was discovered in Fluent Bit 3.1.9. When the Prometheus Remote Write input plugin is running and listening on an IP address and port, one can send a packet with Content-Length: 0 and it cras…

2024-05-20
Critical

CVE-2024-4323

A memory corruption vulnerability in Fluent Bit versions 2.0.7 thru 3.0.3. This issue lies in the embedded http server’s parsing of trace requests and may result in denial of service conditions, info…

2024-03-26
High

CVE-2024-23722

In Fluent Bit 2.1.8 through 2.2.1, a NULL pointer dereference can be caused via an invalid HTTP payload with the content type of x-www-form-urlencoded. It crashes and does not restart. This could res…

2024-02-26
High

CVE-2024-26455

fluent-bit 2.2.2 contains a Use-After-Free vulnerability in /fluent-bit/plugins/custom_calyptia/calyptia.c.

2023-04-11
High

CVE-2021-46879

An issue was discovered in Treasure Data Fluent Bit 1.7.1, a wrong variable is used to get the msgpack data resulting in a heap overflow in flb_msgpack_gelf_value_ext. An attacker can craft a malicio…

High

CVE-2021-46878

An issue was discovered in Treasure Data Fluent Bit 1.7.1, erroneous parsing in flb_pack_msgpack_to_json_format leads to type confusion bug that interprets whatever is on the stack as msgpack maps an…

2021-07-01
Critical

CVE-2021-36088

Fluent Bit (aka fluent-bit) 1.7.0 through 1.7.4 has a double free in flb_free (called from flb_parser_json_do and flb_parser_do).

2021-02-10
High

CVE-2021-27186

Fluent Bit 1.6.10 has a NULL pointer dereference when an flb_malloc return value is not validated by flb_avro.c or http_server/api/v1/metrics.c.

2021-01-03
High

CVE-2020-35963

flb_gzip_compress in flb_gzip.c in Fluent Bit before 1.6.4 has an out-of-bounds write because it does not use the correct calculation of the maximum gzip data-size expansion.

2019-03-13
High

CVE-2019-9749

An issue was discovered in the MQTT input plugin in Fluent Bit through 1.0.4. When this plugin acts as an MQTT broker (server), it mishandles incoming network messages. After processing a crafted pac…

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