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CVE-2026-54425

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Published 2026-10-21 · Last modified 2026-10-21

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.

NO EXPLOITATION SIGNALS

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Exploitation likelihood

0.3%chance of exploitation in 30 days · 17th percentile

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Affected

Vendors Apache Software Foundation

Products Apache Brpc

Weakness (CWE)

  • CWE-674: Uncontrolled Recursion

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Sources: NVD · CVE.org · EPSS