CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2026-44981

Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)

Published: Jul 16, 2026 | Modified: Jul 16, 2026
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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CrowdSec offers crowdsourced protection against malicious IPs. From 1.7.0 until 1.7.8, the LAPI router used gin-contrib/gzip with DefaultDecompressHandle globally in pkg/apiserver/controllers/controller.go, causing /v1/watchers and /v1/watchers/login to decompress unauthenticated gzip-compressed JSON request bodies without enforcing a maximum decompressed size and allowing excessive heap allocation that can make LAPI unreachable. This issue is fixed in version 1.7.8.

Weakness

The product does not handle or incorrectly handles a compressed input with a very high compression ratio that produces a large output.

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