CVE-2026-53430 (GCVE-0-2026-53430)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-15 21:55 – Updated: 2026-06-15 21:55
VLAI
Title
grpc gzip decompression bomb in GRPC.Compressor.Gzip.decompress/1
Summary
Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) vulnerability in elixir-grpc grpc (GRPC.Compressor.Gzip, GRPC.Message modules) allows a denial of service via a gzip decompression bomb. This vulnerability is associated with program files lib/grpc/compressor/gzip.ex, lib/grpc/message.ex and program routines 'Elixir.GRPC.Compressor.Gzip':decompress/1, 'Elixir.GRPC.Message':from_data/2. 'Elixir.GRPC.Compressor.Gzip':decompress/1 calls :zlib.gunzip/1 directly on attacker-controlled bytes with no decompressed-size limit, ratio check, or incremental decoding. Because this module is the registered gzip GRPC.Compressor implementation, it is invoked automatically whenever an incoming gRPC frame carries the grpc-encoding: gzip header. :zlib.gunzip/1 allocates the entire decompressed result as a single binary, so a small highly compressible payload (for example a few kilobytes of zeros, which gzip compresses at roughly 1000:1) expands to multiple gigabytes inside a single call. The max_receive_message_length limit is enforced only against the already-decompressed message, so it provides no protection. An unauthenticated remote peer can send a single crafted frame to exhaust the BEAM node's heap and trigger an out-of-memory kill. This issue affects grpc: from 0.4.0 before 1.0.0.
Severity
8.7 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
  • CWE-409 - Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)
Assigner
EEF
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
elixir-grpc grpc Affected: 0.4.0 , < 1.0.0 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:elixir-grpc:grpc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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elixir-grpc grpc Affected: beae6800fc8baf126f3fe7107d86a50e105275ba , < 1afbab9d57d2a3e16ca9c62ffa4923338ea96cfc (git)
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Credits
Peter Ullrich Paulo Valente
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