CWE-409 · weakness in Denial of Service
Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)
188 CVEs
Every dot is a CVE; the named ones are the most at risk. Red is exploited in the wild.
Every one of the 188 is a mark on the map. Named now: 1 to 26, most at risk first.
- urllib3 vulnerable to decompression-bomb safeguard bypass when following HTTP redirects (streaming API)
- .NET and Visual Studio Denial of Service Vulnerability
- Go JOSE vulnerable to Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)
- The HTTP client module superagent is vulnerable to ZIP bomb attacks. In a ZIP bomb attack, the HTTP server replies with a compressed response that becomes several magnitudes large…
- Zip bomb vulnerability in Envoy
- Resteasy-core: resteasy: iioimageprovider unbounded image decode (decompression-bomb dos)
- undici is vulnerable to Unbounded Memory Consumption in undici WebSocket permessage-deflate Decompression
- In JetBrains YouTrack before 2026.2.18177 doS attack was possible via a decompression bomb in the import endpoint
- Apache Thrift: Ruby THeaderTransport ZLIB Decompression Bomb
- Apache Thrift, Apache Thrift, Apache Thrift, Apache Thrift, Apache Thrift, Apache Thrift: TZlibTransport Decompression Size Limit
- Apache Thrift: Unbounded Zlib Decompression in Python THeaderTransport
- gosaml2 vulnerable to Denial of Service via deflate decompression bomb
- Soupwebsocketextensiondeflate: libsoup: libsoup: websocket permessage-deflate unbounded decompression remote denial of service
- ASP.NET Core Denial of Service Vulnerability
- Suricata http2: decompression bomb can cause denial of service in Suricata
- XML External Entity (XXE) Vulnerability in scrapy/scrapy
- Nomad Client Vulnerable to Decompression Bombs in Artifact Block
- parsedmarc < 11.0.1 Zip Bomb DoS via Compressed Email Attachments
- Denial of Service in h2oai/h2o-3
- Apollo Router's Compressed Payloads do not respect HTTP Payload Limits
- Improper Input Validation in binary-husky/gpt_academic
- Pre-auth SSH DoS via unbounded zlib inflate
- Netdata: WebSocket Decompression Bomb
- rpcx - Denial of Service via Gzip Decompression Bomb in Wire Protocol
- Apache NiFi: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption through Decompression of HTTP Requests
- Out-Of-Memory (OOM) Vulnerability in ollama/ollama
exploited in the wildcheck availableringed, named or not: CyberSIXT has reported on it
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Data as of 2026-11-14. CVE List through 2026-11-14 · EPSS of 2026-11-13 · CISA KEV checked 2026-11-14. Sources: the CVE List, CISA KEV, EPSS, NVD, nuclei templates and public bug bounty data.