Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) Affecting dfir-unfurl package, versions [0,]
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- published30 Jan 2026
- disclosed29 Jan 2026
- creditMobasi AI Team
Introduced: 29 Jan 2026
CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-400 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for dfir-unfurl.
Overview
dfir-unfurl is an Unfurl takes a URL and expands ("unfurls") it into a directed graph
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) via the zlib.decompress function in the compressed data parsing process. An attacker can exhaust system memory and cause the service to crash by submitting a specially crafted, highly compressed payload that expands to a very large size upon decompression.