Apache bRPC: Memory Exhaustion Through Inconsistent Message Body Limits

published 2026-10-21 19 d ago modified 2026-10-30 10 d ago also EUVD-2026-107176

cvss: 7.5; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.5%; EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 41%
public exploits: 0; none known

Apache bRPC versions before 1.18.0 do not consistently enforce the configured max_body_size limit in non-progressive HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 parsing and in memcache and couchbase response parsing.

A remote unauthenticated peer can cause an affected process to buffer message data beyond the configured limit, which may lead to memory exhaustion and denial of service. Users should upgrade to 1.18.0 or apply the patch from PR https://github.com/apache/brpc/pull/3382 . The fix rejects oversized buffered HTTP bodies, returns HTTP 413 for HTTP/1 requests, resets oversized HTTP/2 streams, and rejects oversized memcache and couchbase responses from their declared lengths. Progressive HTTP reading remains supported because it uses bounded buffering.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

Apache Software Foundation Apache bRPC 1.18.0

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 10 d ago (2026-10-30)

Exploit prediction

0.48% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 41% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CISA ADP	3.1	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA	3.1	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache bRPC

Classification

Weakness

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

lists.apache.org /thread/2pf15ojj0vr7rtx95677kgtl1mx3gdgb
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2026-61902
NVD CVE-2026-61902

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Summary