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CVE-2026-85721: AsyncHttpClient's unbounded HTTP/1.1 response decompression enables a decompression-bomb denial of service

September 17, 2026

With automatic response decompression enabled (the default), the HTTP/1.1 path decompresses response bodies with no limit on the total output size. A hostile or compromised server, or an attacker who can change a response in transit, can send a small compressed body that inflates without bound in memory, exhausting the client’s heap and causing an OutOfMemoryError. gzip, deflate and snappy are always available as vectors; brotli and zstd apply only when those optional codecs are on the classpath.

References

  • github.com/AsyncHttpClient/async-http-client/commit/5ee2841cbf268bba4a200578be3938ccfc6cc6d6
  • github.com/AsyncHttpClient/async-http-client/commit/663a1a91757904b22cfe37e2e6049f1f8ea6ae59
  • github.com/AsyncHttpClient/async-http-client/commit/e1871a19972fb496be1b8ac6be11d79e22ff2162
  • github.com/AsyncHttpClient/async-http-client/commit/e9f2f7423e0f6503f529656f2955a1317e56ba14
  • github.com/AsyncHttpClient/async-http-client/security/advisories/GHSA-7grg-jcf7-rpmx
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-7grg-jcf7-rpmx
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-85721

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 2.0.0 before 2.16.1, all versions starting from 3.0.0 before 3.0.12

Fixed versions

  • 2.16.1
  • 3.0.12

Solution

Upgrade to versions 2.16.1, 3.0.12 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-409: Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)

Source file

maven/org.asynchttpclient/async-http-client/CVE-2026-85721.yml

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