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FKIE_CVE-2026-53659

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-09-14 18:17 - Updated: 2026-09-14 19:17
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
http4k is a functional toolkit for Kotlin HTTP applications. Prior to 4.51.0.0, 5.42.0.0, and 6.49.0.0, ServerFilters.GZip, RequestFilters.GunZip, and the underlying Gzip request-body decompression functions impose no limit on decompressed size. An unauthenticated client can send a small gzip-encoded request body that expands to gigabytes, exhausting the JVM heap and denying service to other clients. The fix uses SizeLimitedInputStream to enforce a default 10 MiB limit, causes ServerFilters.GZip and RequestFilters.GunZip to return 413 Request Entity Too Large, and causes other decompression paths to throw SizeLimitExceededException. This issue is fixed in versions 4.51.0.0, 5.42.0.0, and 6.49.0.0.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/http4k/http4k/commit/2618fe08f9801353012561ae1f1382fa2d37bac9
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/http4k/http4k/commit/9f9e02f8efbbe04e0c70f1c46eef5d9d9067ea5b
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/http4k/http4k/releases/tag/6.49.0.0
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/http4k/http4k/security/advisories/GHSA-g4w2-6h2r-3m3w
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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  "lastModified": "2026-09-14T19:17:25.610",
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