CVE-2026-54425 (GCVE-0-2026-54425)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-21 11:31
Modified
2026-10-30 13:45
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CWE
- CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion
Summary
Uncontrolled recursion in the HTTP/2 HPACK decoder in Apache bRPC before 1.18.0 allows remote attackers to cause denial of service by sending a crafted HTTP/2 header block containing many consecutive Dynamic Table Size Update entries. Each update was decoded by recursively invoking the HPACK decoder, which could exhaust the thread stack before a header field or end of input was reached.
Root Cause:
The bRPC HPACK decoder recursively decoded the next entry after processing a Dynamic Table Size Update. The decoder did not bound the recursion depth, so a long sequence of update entries could consume excessive stack space.
Affected Scenarios:
Use bRPC with the built-in HTTP/2 implementation to accept HTTP/2 traffic from an untrusted network.
How to Fix:
1. Upgrade bRPC to version 1.18.0, which fixes this issue.
2. Apply this patch: https://github.com/apache/brpc/pull/3343
Note:
The fix changes HPACK Dynamic Table Size Update decoding to use iterative parsing instead of recursive parsing.
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Impacted products
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| Apache Software Foundation | Apache bRPC |
Version: 0 ≤ |
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