CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-84890

5.9 MEDIUM Published 2026-09-04 Modified 2026-09-11 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-09-04
Last modified
2026-09-11
Assigner
ce714d77-add3-4f53-aff5-83d477b104bb
CVSS 3.1 (ce714d77-add3-4f53-aff5-83d477b104bb)
5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-770

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.

Affected configurations

• nodejs undici (>= 7.15.0 < 7.29.1) • nodejs undici (>= 8.0.0 < 8.10.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness

References