GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go
GHSA-2phg-qgmm-r638 Sliver has Potential Zip Bomb Denial of Service in GzipEncoder
HIGH
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- Ecosystem
- Go
- Packages
- github.com/bishopfox/sliver
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-409
- Reviewed
- 2026-02-25
Affected packages
• Go github.com/bishopfox/sliver: < 1.7.2 → fixed in 1.7.2
Description
Summary
GzipEncoder does not limit output size when processing compressed data. This allows unauthenticated remote attackers to crash sliver server by sending a http request with highly compressed gzip data (aka zip bomb).
Details
In `util/encoders/gzip.go`, `Decode()` method decompresses given data by reading the entire gzip buffer at once without limiting output size.
PoC
```python
data = gzip.compress(bytes(1024 * 1024 * 1024)) * 16
requests.post(f"http://172.17.0.2/{nonce}", data=data)
```
Impact
Unauthenticated remote attackers can exhaust memory and cpu resource of sliver server and crash it when they have GzipEncoderID, which can be easily retrived from implant's http traffic, or by brute-forcing.
A fixed version is available at https://github.com/BishopFox/sliver/releases/tag/v1.7.2.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-409 Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) weakness
References
- https://github.com/BishopFox/sliver/security/advisories/GHSA-2phg-qgmm-r638 web
- https://github.com/BishopFox/sliver/commit/0cf5a47cfdf94b6ab481ec3ea0db09f31654c0f0 web
- https://github.com/BishopFox/sliver package
- https://github.com/BishopFox/sliver/releases/tag/v1.7.2 web
- https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2026-4548 web