Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting io.projectreactor:reactor-core package, versions [,3.8.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (13th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-IOPROJECTREACTOR-19267101
  • published26 Aug 2026
  • disclosed20 Aug 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Aug 2026

NewCVE-2026-47857  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade io.projectreactor:reactor-core to version 3.8.7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in the Flux.windowTimeout function when fairBackpressure is enabled. An attacker can cause the stream to hang indefinitely and exhaust system resources by maintaining long-lived connections and manipulating downstream read speeds.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1