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CVE-2026-84890: undici vulnerable to Denial of Service via unbounded decompression of compressed responses

September 29, 2026

The interceptors.decompress() interceptor decompresses HTTP response bodies according to the untrusted Content-Encoding header. The number of decompression layers is capped at 5, but the total decompressed output size is not bounded and there is no option to limit it. A malicious or faulty upstream can return a small compressed payload (a compression bomb) that expands to hundreds of megabytes or gigabytes in client memory, exhausting memory and causing the Node.js process to crash or become unresponsive. Any application using the decompress interceptor to read responses from untrusted or compromised upstreams is affected.

References

  • cna.openjsf.org/security-advisories.html
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-3xpg-4rpp-hhhm
  • github.com/nodejs/undici/commit/2c7d7e1227043c644c4c32cfd1e276f4fd4fcb11
  • github.com/nodejs/undici/commit/7aac7f12f757844763c8b8f1ab6e305e80d55838
  • github.com/nodejs/undici/releases/tag/v7.29.1
  • github.com/nodejs/undici/releases/tag/v8.10.2
  • github.com/nodejs/undici/security/advisories/GHSA-3xpg-4rpp-hhhm
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-84890

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 7.15.0 before 7.29.1, all versions starting from 8.0.0 before 8.10.2

Fixed versions

  • 7.29.1
  • 8.10.2

Solution

Upgrade to versions 7.29.1, 8.10.2 or above.

Impact 5.9 MEDIUM

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

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Weakness

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

Source file

npm/undici/CVE-2026-84890.yml

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