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CVE-2026-78384

Updated on 09 Oct 2026

Severity

7.5 High severity

Details

CVSS score
7.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE ID
Links
NISTCIRCLRHELUbuntu

Overview

About vulnerability

CompressionUtils.inflate() decompressed attacker-controlled DEFLATE data with no output-size cap. A small (~KB) crafted payload could expand to gigabytes on the heap. Reachable via JWE decryption when zip=DEF (e.g. JoseSessionTokenProvider with RSA-OAEP key wrap) and via SAML redirect/POST binding token inflation — in both cases decompression happens before/independent of trust validation.

Fix: Added a configurable maximum inflated-size cap (default 10 MiB, org.apache.cxf.compression-max-inflated-size system property) to CompressionUtils.inflate(); aborts with DataFormatException once exceeded. Users are recommended to upgrade to versions 4.2.4 or 4.1.9 or 3.6.13, which fix this issue.

Details

Affected product:
Apache CXF , Wildfly , camel , chemistry-opencmis , infinispan , jbossws-cxf , karaf , opencmis , sentimentanalysisparser , tika , trunk
Affected packages:
cxf @ 3.5.9 (+3469 more)