Buffer Overflow Affecting brotli package, versions [,1.0.9)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.39% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-BROTLI-10264899
  • published30 May 2025
  • disclosed15 Sept 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Sep 2020

CVE-2020-8927  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade brotli to version 1.0.9 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow. An attacker could control the input length of a "one-shot" decompression request to a script can trigger a crash, which happens when copying over chunks of data larger than 2 GiB.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1