undici's decompress interceptor decompresses response bodies according to the untrusted Content-Encoding…
Historical advisory recorded 25 Oct 2026 16:19:16 UTC. Read the latest advisory.
nvd · CVE-2026-84890
Publishedundici'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.
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nvd · CVE-2026-84890
PublishedNVD analysis and CPE criteria are source context, not proof that a package or your environment is affected. Complete affected data, logical configurations and SSVC are retained in the original JSON.
Source analysis status: Analyzed
Weakness classifications: CWE-770
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published: 2026-09-04T18:18:01.633
lastModified: 2026-09-11T16:55:29.047
1 source CPE criteria · context only
- cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:undici:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
The original JSON retains the logical configuration operators, exclusions and version bounds.
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