CVE-2026-123610 PUBLISHED

rustls before 0.23.46 Denial of Service via Brotli Certificate Decompression

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 06.11.2026 Published: 08.11.2026 Updated: 08.11.2026

rustls before 0.23.46 contains an uncontrolled memory allocation flaw in its optional Brotli certificate decompression, which limits decompressed output size but accepts an input-selected large history window. Malicious peers can send a certificate with a five-byte Brotli header requesting up to 1 GiB before authentication, aborting Brotli-enabled clients or client-authenticating servers whose allocator cannot satisfy the request.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 6.3

Product Status

Vendor rustls
Product rustls
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 0.23.46 (excl.)
  • Version 0.23.46 is unaffected

References

Problem Types

  • Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling CWE