CVE-2026-10725 PUBLISHED

Protocol::HTTP2 versions through 1.12 for Perl is vulnerable to a HTTP/2 Bomb

Assigner: CPANSec
Reserved: 03.06.2026 Published: 06.06.2026 Updated: 06.06.2026

Protocol::HTTP2 versions through 1.12 for Perl is vulnerable to a HTTP/2 Bomb.

Protocol::HTTP2's inbound HPACK path has no header-list size limit, so a small HTTP/2 request can expand into large server memory (the "HTTP/2 bomb").

The headers_decode method materialises a full key+value copy per indexed reference with no running size check, and the stream_header_block_add method appends (since version 1.12) every CONTINUATION frame to the per-stream buffer unbounded.

MAX_HEADER_LIST_SIZE (default 65536) is advertised in SETTINGS but never consulted on decode. It is absent from the decoder and from the :limits export tag.

Product Status

Vendor CRUX
Product Protocol::HTTP2
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 1.12 (incl.)

Workarounds

Apply the patch.

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-409 Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) CWE