Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) Affecting netdata package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.74% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-NETDATA-20047238
  • published23 Sept 2026
  • disclosed22 Sept 2026

Introduced: 22 Sep 2026

NewCVE-2026-83599  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-409  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:12 netdata.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream netdata package and not the netdata package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

Netdata is an open source observability tool. Prior to 2.11.0, Netdata's unauthenticated WebSocket server negotiates permessage-deflate before authentication, and src/web/websocket/websocket-compression.c allows websocket_client_decompress_message() to grow decompressed output toward WS_MAX_DECOMPRESSED_SIZE without enforcing a compressed-to-decompressed ratio. Small highly compressed frames can therefore cause large server-side allocations, and repeated concurrent connections can exhaust memory and terminate monitoring. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.11.0.