CVE-2026-32829CWE-201CWE-823

CVE-2026-32829

High · published March 20, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
53.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

lz4_flex is a pure Rust implementation of LZ4 compression/decompression. In versions 0.11.5 and below, and 0.12.0, decompressing invalid LZ4 data can leak sensitive information from uninitialized memory or from previous decompression operations. The library fails to properly validate offset values during LZ4 "match copy operations," allowing out-of-bounds reads from the output buffer. The block-based API functions (`decompress_into`, `decompress_into_with_dict`, and others when `safe-decode` is disabled) are affected, while all frame APIs are unaffected. The impact is potential exposure of sensitive data and secrets through crafted or malformed LZ4 input. This issue has been fixed in versions 0.11.6 and 0.12.1.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00718 · 53.3th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-201 · Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data; CWE-823 · Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset
Published
2026-03-20T05:15Z
Affected products (2)
ProductVersionsFixed in
pseitz/lz4_flex< 0.11.60.11.6
pseitz/lz4_flexall versions—
References (10)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 MAR 00:49Z
    lz4_flex: Decompression can leak information from uninitialized memory or reused output buffer
    cvelistv5