CVE-2026-59803

rpcx - Denial of Service via Gzip Decompression Bomb in Wire Protocol

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: July 8, 2026 at 07:42 PM UTC
Updated: October 25, 2026 at 05:10 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorRpcx

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.7%
SSVC
PoC

Description

rpcx through 1.9.3, fixed in commit 047aec1, contains a denial-of-service vulnerability in protocol.Message.Decode (protocol/message.go). When a message has the compression flag set, the payload is gzip-decompressed via util.Unzip with no limit on the decompressed output size. The only built-in size guard, protocol.MaxMessageLength, is checked against the compressed on-the-wire frame length, not the decompressed size, so it provides no protection. Because decoding (and decompression) occurs in readRequest before authentication, a single unauthenticated connection can send a small (under 2 MB) gzip-compressed message that expands to gigabytes of heap allocation, leading to out-of-memory conditions and service unavailability.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v ≤ 1.9.3
Vendor states this is fixed in 047aec18efa7d037105e2b72c36dd2ae05e1acc6 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 47aec18efa7d37105e2b72c36dd2ae5e1acc6 (unaffected)

Remediation

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SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCPoCAutomatablePartial impact

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CVSS

7.5HIGHVulnCheck
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-409

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