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
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
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 8.7 High | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N | VulnCheck |
| 3.1 | 7.5 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | VulnCheck |
Weaknesses
- CWE-409 Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
rpcxsmallnest |
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References
- Researcher Disclosuretechnical-descriptionexploit
- Fix PRissue-tracking
- Fix Commitpatch
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/rpcx-denial-of-service-via-gzip-decompression-bomb-in-wire-protocolthird-party-advisory
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