CVE-2026-84890

node-undici: undici's decompress interceptor decompresses response bodies according to the untrusted Content-Encoding header

CVE-2026-84890 is fixed in 12 products on 1 platform, first by DEBIAN-CVE-2026-84890, released September 10, 2026. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Routine.

Routine
CVSS
5.9
medium
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0041
35th percentile

undici's decompress interceptor decompresses response bodies according to the untrusted Content-Encoding header. While the number of content-encoding layers is capped, the total decompressed output size is unbounded and there is no configuration option to limit it. A malicious or faulty upstream can therefore return a small compressed payload, a compression bomb, that expands to hundreds of megabytes or more in client memory, an asymmetric resource consumption that can exhaust memory and crash the process. This affects undici versions from 7.15.0 up to 7.29.1 and from 8.0.0 up to 8.10.2. Users should upgrade to undici 7.29.1 or 8.10.2.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
node-undici · Debian 14 8.10.2+dfsg+~cs3.2.2-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-84890 Sep 10, 2026
nodejs24 · amzn 2023 1:24.21.0-1.amzn2023.0.1 ALAS2023-2026-3107 Sep 28, 2026
nodejs24-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:24.21.0-1.amzn2023.0.1 ALAS2023-2026-3107 Sep 28, 2026
nodejs24-debugsource · amzn 2023 1:24.21.0-1.amzn2023.0.1 ALAS2023-2026-3107 Sep 28, 2026
nodejs24-devel · amzn 2023 1:24.21.0-1.amzn2023.0.1 ALAS2023-2026-3107 Sep 28, 2026
nodejs24-docs · amzn 2023 1:24.21.0-1.amzn2023.0.1 ALAS2023-2026-3107 Sep 28, 2026
nodejs24-full-i18n · amzn 2023 1:24.21.0-1.amzn2023.0.1 ALAS2023-2026-3107 Sep 28, 2026
nodejs24-libs · amzn 2023 1:24.21.0-1.amzn2023.0.1 ALAS2023-2026-3107 Sep 28, 2026
nodejs24-libs-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:24.21.0-1.amzn2023.0.1 ALAS2023-2026-3107 Sep 28, 2026
nodejs24-npm · amzn 2023 1:11.19.0-1.24.21.0.1.amzn2023.0.1 ALAS2023-2026-3107 Sep 28, 2026
pi-coding-agent · opensuse-leap 16.0 1.0.4-bp160.1.1 OPENSUSE-SU-2026:22111-1 Nov 7, 2026
v8-13.6-devel · amzn 2023 3:13.6.233.17-1.24.21.0.1.amzn2023.0.1 ALAS2023-2026-3107 Sep 28, 2026

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