CVE-2026-59803
HIGHrpcx - Denial of Service via Gzip Decompression Bomb in Wire Protocol
Title source: cnaDescription
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.
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
Exploit technical-description
exploit
Researcher Disclosure
https://github.com/smallnest/rpcx/issues/942
Patch patch
Fix Commit
https://github.com/smallnest/rpcx/commit/047aec18efa7d037105e2b72c36dd2ae05e1acc6
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/rpcx-denial-of-service-via-gzip-decompression-bomb-in-wire-protocol
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0041
EPSS Percentile
32.9%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
poc
Automatable
yes
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-409
Status
published
Products (2)
smallnest/rpcx
< 1.9.3
smallnest/rpcx
047aec18efa7d037105e2b72c36dd2ae05e1acc6
Published
Jul 08, 2026
Tracked Since
Jul 09, 2026