CVE-2026-84382
### Summary When decoding a compressed response body (`gzip`, `deflate`, `br`, or `zstd`), HTTPX2 fully decompressed each network read before yielding content to the application. A small compressed input could therefore cause a large intermediate memory allocation, even when the application streamed the response to keep memory usage bounded. ### Details HTTPX2's default transport reads the socket in pieces of up to 64 KiB. Before `2.12.0`, each piece was inflated completely into one intermediate allocation before any decompressed bytes were yielded. At DEFLATE's maximum compression ratio of roughly 1032:1, a 64 KiB compressed chunk can expand to about 64 MiB in one allocation. Brotli and Zstandard responses can cause similarly large amplification. Streaming the response did not prevent these transient allocations. ### Impact Applications that fetch resources from untrusted or attacker-influenced servers - such as webhook receivers, link unfurlers, crawlers, SSRF-reachable fetchers, and redirect followers - can experience memory pressure or out-of-memory termination when processing a malicious compressed response. No authentication or user interaction is required beyond issuing a request to the server. ### Mitigation Upgrade to HTTPX2 `2.12.0` or later. Patched versions decompress responses incrementally with bounded intermediate buffers, including responses with multiple content encodings.
Properties
- summary
- HTTPX2: Streaming response decompression does not bound peak memory (decompression amplification)
- severity
- high
- epss_score
- 0.0035
- cvss_score
- 7.5
- ghsa_published
- 2026-09-08T20:48:59Z
- source_url
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8xx6-hgc6-gc2m
- ghsa_updated
- 2026-09-08T20:48:59Z
- ghsa_id
- GHSA-8xx6-hgc6-gc2m
- cve_id
- CVE-2026-84382
- cvss_vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- is_ghsa_only
- false
- epss_percentile
- 0.28043
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