VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2026-84890

CVSS score5.9 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.41%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2026-09-04
Last modified2026-09-11
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

undici's decompress interceptor decompresses response bodies according to the untrusted Content-Encoding header. While the number of content-encoding layers is capped, the total decompressed output size is unbounded and there is no configuration option to limit it. A malicious or faulty upstream can therefore return a small compressed payload, a compression bomb, that expands to hundreds of megabytes or more in client memory, an asymmetric resource consumption that can exhaust memory and crash the process. This affects undici versions from 7.15.0 up to 7.29.1 and from 8.0.0 up to 8.10.2. Users should upgrade to undici 7.29.1 or 8.10.2.

Weakness classification

  • ce714d77-add3-4f53-aff5-83d477b104bb: CWE-770

Primary references