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CVE-2026-49755

· Published 08/06/2026 16:16 · Modified 09/06/2026 15:20

Labels: CVE-2026-49755 2026-06-086b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49dbCVE-2026-49755CWE-409

Essential information

Published
08/06/2026 16:16
Modified
09/06/2026 15:20
Author
Creator
CVSS
8.2 HIGH (v3) 8.2 HIGH (v4.0)
CISA KEV
No
CWE
CVSS vector

CVSS metrics

Description

Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) vulnerability in wojtekmach Req allows attacker-controlled HTTP servers to exhaust memory in a Req client via decompression-bomb response bodies. Req's default response pipeline includes Req.Steps.decode_body/1 and Req.Steps.decompress_body/1 in lib/req/steps.ex. decode_body/1 dispatches on the server-supplied content-type (or URL extension) and calls :zip.extract(body, [:memory]) for application/zip, :erl_tar.extract({:binary, body}, [:memory]) for application/x-tar, and :erl_tar.extract({:binary, body}, [:memory, :compressed]) for application/gzip / .tgz. Each returns the full decompressed archive contents as a [{name, bytes}] list in memory, with no per-entry or total size cap. decompress_body/1 walks the content-encoding header and chains :zlib/:brotli/:ezstd decoders, so a response advertising content-encoding: gzip, gzip, gzip inflates through multiple layers without bound. Both steps are enabled by default, no caller opt-in is required, and the attacker controls the content-type and content-encoding headers on their own server (or on any host reached via Req's automatic redirect following). A sub-megabyte response can expand to multiple gigabytes on the victim, crashing the BEAM process. This issue affects req: from 0.1.0 before 0.6.1.

NVD status

Status
Awaiting Analysis — CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.
Source
6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
NVD
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Affected products (CPE)

ProductCPE
wojtekmach / req cpe:2.3:a:wojtekmach:req:<0.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*

References