---
id: "CVE-2026-116668"
kind: "vulnerability"
aliases: ["CVE-2026-116668"]
title: "Tanium Discover: uncontrolled resource consumption can exhaust a system"
severity: "medium"
cvss: 4.3
epss: null
exploited: false
status: "open"
category: "vendor"
products: []
ecosystems: []
tags: ["endpoint-management", "tanium", "tanium-discover", "vendor"]
not_affected_if: ["unknown"]
published_at: "2026-11-03T23:17:32+00:00"
first_seen_at: "2026-11-03T23:45:14+00:00"
updated_at: "2026-11-03T23:45:51+00:00"
sources: [{"source": "nvd", "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-116668", "first_seen_at": "2026-11-03T23:45:14+00:00"}]
---

# Tanium Discover: uncontrolled resource consumption can exhaust a system

Tanium Discover has an uncontrolled resource consumption flaw, which means a crafted input can make it use up memory, CPU or disk. The sources do not say what input triggers it or what an attacker gets beyond service disruption.

_Summary, check and fix written by a model from the sources; labelled as such._

## Timeline

- 2026-11-03T23:45:14+00:00 nvd https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-116668

## From the sources

Tanium addressed an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in Discover.

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