CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-15709
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-07-14
- Last modified
- 2026-09-24
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-409
Description
A flaw was found in libsoup's WebSocket implementation when using the permessage-deflate extension. The extension's decompression loop (inflate()) processes data in chunks without enforcing an upper boundary limit on the output buffer size. While libsoup limits the incoming compressed frame size via max_incoming_payload_size, it fails to track or limit memory allocation during decompression. A separate check for decompressed size (max_total_message_size) exists but executes only after inflation is complete, and it is entirely disabled by default for client connections. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this by sending a small, highly compressed payload (a decompression bomb), causing unbounded memory allocation that triggers an Out-of-Memory (OOM) crash and a Denial of Service (DoS).
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-409 Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:68234 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:68235 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:68612 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:69108 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:69297 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:69863 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:70598 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:70599 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71389 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-15709 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2499922 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libsoup/-/issues/511 gitlab.gnome.org
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libsoup/-/issues/511 gitlab.gnome.org