GHSA-h2v8-394m-p7vv

Rustls: Brotli certificate decompression can allocate an attacker-controlled amount of memory up to 1 GiB before authentication.

Published

2026-10-27

Modified

2026-10-27

Sources

github-advisory

Summary

### Summary The built-in (but disabled by default) Brotli certificate decoder bounds the output buffer but accepts an input-selected history window. A header of five bytes can specify a 1 GiB window allocation. A peer can abort a process whose allocator cannot satisfy that request. A client must enable Brotli and connect to the peer; a server must enable Brotli and request a client certificate. Neither direction requires a trusted attacker certificate. ### Details rustls calls `BrotliDecompress` which enables Brotli's large-window extension. rustls applies a limit to certificates, but this applies to the decompressed result, and not to any internal allocations the process requires. ### Impact Client applications that enable the `brotli` feature will be vulnerable to malicious servers. Server applications that enable the `brotli` feature and enable client authentication will be vulnerable to malicious clients. Potential for denial of service due to memory exhaustion from peers sending malicious Brotli-encoded certificates, for applications that enable Brotli decompression. ### Acknowledgement Thanks to OpenAI [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) for the disclosure.

Affected packages

Remediation: Upgrade to 0.23.46 or later.

References

• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h2v8-394m-p7vv