Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) Affecting cpp-httplib package, versions [0,]
Threat Intelligence
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- published8 Mar 2026
- disclosed4 Mar 2026
- creditAli Firas
Introduced: 4 Mar 2026
NewCVE-2026-28435 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) via the ContentReader process when handling requests with Content-Encoding: gzip. An attacker can cause excessive resource consumption by sending a small compressed payload that decompresses to a size exceeding the configured payload limit, potentially leading to service disruption.