Decompression bomb DoS in Req via auto-decoded archive and compressed response bodies
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
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Vendor Workaround
Disable Req's automatic body decoding on requests that fetch attacker-influenced URLs by passing decode_body: false to Req.new/1 / Req.get!/1. To also skip the content-encoding decompression pipeline, pass raw: true. Both options leave the response body as the raw on-the-wire bytes, so the caller can size-check before any decompression.
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Github GHSA |
GHSA-655f-mp8p-96gv | Req vulnerable to unbounded archive/compression extraction triggered by response content-type |
No CVSS v3.0
No CVSS v2
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
Exploit prediction score: < 1% (0.596% probability within 30 days)
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| Description | Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) vulnerability in wojtekmach Req allows attacker-controlled HTTP servers to exhaust memory in a Req client via decompression-bomb response bodies. Req's default response pipeline includes Req.Steps.decode_body/1 and Req.Steps.decompress_body/1 in lib/req/steps.ex. decode_body/1 dispatches on the server-supplied content-type (or URL extension) and calls :zip.extract(body, [:memory]) for application/zip, :erl_tar.extract({:binary, body}, [:memory]) for application/x-tar, and :erl_tar.extract({:binary, body}, [:memory, :compressed]) for application/gzip / .tgz. Each returns the full decompressed archive contents as a [{name, bytes}] list in memory, with no per-entry or total size cap. decompress_body/1 walks the content-encoding header and chains :zlib/:brotli/:ezstd decoders, so a response advertising content-encoding: gzip, gzip, gzip inflates through multiple layers without bound. Both steps are enabled by default, no caller opt-in is required, and the attacker controls the content-type and content-encoding headers on their own server (or on any host reached via Req's automatic redirect following). A sub-megabyte response can expand to multiple gigabytes on the victim, crashing the BEAM process. This issue affects req: from 0.1.0 before 0.6.1. | |
| Title | Decompression bomb DoS in Req via auto-decoded archive and compressed response bodies | |
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Wojtekmach
Wojtekmach req |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-409 | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:wojtekmach:req:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
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Wojtekmach
Wojtekmach req |
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cvssV4_0
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