# CVE-2026-94449: Quarkus-smallrye-fault-tolerance: quarkus-smallrye-fault-tolerance: memory leak in @applyguard leads to denial of service

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-09-21 · Updated: 2026-10-15

## Affected

- io.quarkus/quarkus-smallrye-fault-tolerance: version range not reported
- io.quarkus/quarkus-smallrye-fault-tolerance: version range not reported
- exploit-intelligence/agent-client-rhel9: version range not reported
- quarkus-smallrye-fault-tolerance: version range not reported
- quarkus-smallrye-fault-tolerance: version range not reported
- quarkus-smallrye-fault-tolerance: version range not reported

## Description

A flaw was found in the SmallRye Fault Tolerance library, which is used by Quarkus to provide strategies like retries and circuit breakers for microservices. The issue occurs when using the ApplyGuard or ApplyFaultTolerance annotations, where the library fails to release internal tracking objects after each request. This causes a steady increase in memory usage that eventually leads to the application slowing down and crashing due to lack of memory.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on io.quarkus/quarkus-smallrye-fault-tolerance, exploit-intelligence/agent-client-rhel9, quarkus-smallrye-fault-tolerance, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:83082
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:83520
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-94449
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2537502

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