CVE-2026-81875 PUBLISHED

HAPI FHIR: SHCParser unbounded DEFLATE decompression causes denial of service

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 27.08.2026 Published: 16.09.2026 Updated: 16.09.2026

HAPI FHIR is a complete implementation of the HL7 FHIR standard for healthcare interoperability in Java. Prior to version 6.9.12, SHCParser in org.hl7.fhir.r5/src/main/java/org/hl7/fhir/r5/elementmodel/SHCParser.java can consume attacker-controlled Smart Health Card JWT content whose header contains zip: "DEF" and whose small raw-DEFLATE payload expands to a very large value. SHCParser.decodeJWT() passes the decoded payload to SHCParser.inflate(), which accumulates all decompressed bytes in a ByteArrayOutputStream without an output-size limit before JSON parsing, and SHCParser.decompress() contains the same unbounded pattern. An application or validator service that accepts attacker-supplied SHC content can therefore suffer excessive heap allocation, severe garbage-collection pressure, request failure, process instability, or process termination. This issue is fixed in version 6.9.12.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 7.5

Product Status

Vendor hapifhir
Product org.hl7.fhir.core
Versions
  • Version < 6.9.12 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-20: Improper Input Validation CWE
  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption CWE
  • CWE-409: Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) CWE