CVE-2026-59803

rpcx - Denial of Service via Gzip Decompression Bomb in Wire Protocol

State
Published
Severity
8.7 High
Published
Jul 8, 2026
Updated
Jul 9, 2026
Reserved
Jul 7, 2026

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Description

rpcx through 1.9.3, fixed in commit 047aec1, contains a denial-of-service vulnerability in protocol.Message.Decode (protocol/message.go). When a message has the compression flag set, the payload is gzip-decompressed via util.Unzip with no limit on the decompressed output size. The only built-in size guard, protocol.MaxMessageLength, is checked against the compressed on-the-wire frame length, not the decompressed size, so it provides no protection. Because decoding (and decompression) occurs in readRequest before authentication, a single unauthenticated connection can send a small (under 2 MB) gzip-compressed message that expands to gigabytes of heap allocation, leading to out-of-memory conditions and service unavailability.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.08.7 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NVulnCheck
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HVulnCheck

Weaknesses

  • CWE-409 Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)

Affected Products

ProductVersions
rpcxsmallnest
  • 1.9.3 and earlierAffected
  • 047aec18efa7d037105e2b72c36dd2ae05e1acc6Not affected

References

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