CVE-2026-126366

msgpack-java JRuby decoder allocates from declared header counts with no cap: 5-byte message forces multi-GiB OOM

Published Nov 12, 2026 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS n/a KEV · Not listed
Description
MessagePack for Ruby is an implementation of the MessagePack binary serialization format. Prior to 1.8.7, the Java-platform msgpack gem for JRuby allocated arrays and byte buffers directly from attacker-controlled array32, str32, and bin32 declared sizes before confirming that corresponding elements or bytes were available. A short MessagePack header could therefore trigger a very large allocation or sustained heap growth when an application decoded untrusted input through MessagePack.unpack or MessagePack::Unpacker, potentially exhausting the shared JVM heap. map32 and declared counts at or above 2^31 did not use the affected allocation behavior. This issue is fixed in version 1.8.7.

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Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-73v3-wf97-vpgj msgpack-ruby JRuby decoder makes uncapped header-count allocations; a 5-byte message forces multi-GiB OOM
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Description MessagePack for Ruby is an implementation of the MessagePack binary serialization format. Prior to 1.8.7, the Java-platform msgpack gem for JRuby allocated arrays and byte buffers directly from attacker-controlled array32, str32, and bin32 declared sizes before confirming that corresponding elements or bytes were available. A short MessagePack header could therefore trigger a very large allocation or sustained heap growth when an application decoded untrusted input through MessagePack.unpack or MessagePack::Unpacker, potentially exhausting the shared JVM heap. map32 and declared counts at or above 2^31 did not use the affected allocation behavior. This issue is fixed in version 1.8.7.
Title msgpack-java JRuby decoder allocates from declared header counts with no cap: 5-byte message forces multi-GiB OOM
Weaknesses CWE-1325
CWE-770
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Nov 12, 2026, 10:41 PM
Reserved
Nov 10, 2026, 9:12 PM
Status
Received
Published
Nov 13, 2026, 12:20 AM
Modified
Nov 13, 2026, 12:20 AM