CWE-409Base

Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)

Incomplete in the CWE catalog · 108 CVEs mapped

108
CVEs mapped
6.9
Median CVSS
What it is

The product does not handle or incorrectly handles a compressed input with a very high compression ratio that produces a large output.

Recent examples
7.5cvss
CVE-2026-85786

CVE-2026-85786 - HIGH Severity Vulnerability

Improper handling of highly compressed data in Amazon ion-java before 1.12.1 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted compressed Ion document that expands to an arbitrarily large size upon decompression due to insufficient coverage of the GZIP auto-decompression opt-out introduced for CVE-2026-75936. To remediate this issue, users should upgrade to version 1.12.1.

HIGHno explanation yet
0%
epss
7.5cvss
CVE-2026-82520

CVE-2026-82520 - HIGH Severity Vulnerability

parsedmarc before 11.0.1 decompresses gzip and ZIP attachments in a single unbounded read with no limit on decompressed output size. Because parsedmarc automatically processes incoming DMARC report emails without user interaction, an unauthenticated remote attacker can send a crafted email with a highly compressed attachment to the monitored mailbox, causing the parsedmarc process to allocate memory proportional to the uncompressed size and exhaust available RAM.

HIGHno explanation yet
0%
epss
7.5cvss
CVE-2026-84382

CVE-2026-84382 - HIGH Severity Vulnerability

HTTPX2 is a next generation HTTP client for Python. Prior to 2.12.0, the HTTPX2 content decoders in src/httpx2/httpx2/_decoders.py fully inflate each gzip, deflate, br, or zstd network chunk before iter_bytes() or aiter_bytes() yields bounded pieces to the application. A 64 KiB compressed chunk can expand to approximately 64 MiB in one intermediate allocation, so an attacker-controlled or compromised server can cause severe memory pressure or out-of-memory process termination even when the application streams the response. This issue is fixed in version 2.12.0.

HIGHno explanation yet
0%
epss
The record
Technical detail
CWE ID
CWE-409
Abstraction
Base
Structure
Simple
Status
Incomplete