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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2026-73232 json

ffuf denial of service (OOM) via HTTP response decompression bomb

published 2026-08-11 2 mo ago modified 2026-09-18 51 d ago also GHSA-jcvh-xf52-2cwm , GO-2026-6369 , EUVD-2026-56926

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 50%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

ffuf is a fast web fuzzer written in Go. Prior to 2.2.0, ffuf allows a malicious target server to cause an out-of-memory denial of service because the response size guard in pkg/runner/simple.go checks only the compressed Content-Length while io.ReadAll reads gzip, brotli, deflate, transparently decompressed, or chunked response bodies without a decompressed-size bound. This issue is fixed in version 2.2.0.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/ffuf/ffuf/v2 2.2.0
  • ffuf Debian 14 2.2.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-73232

  • govulncheck-vulndb SLES 16.0, SLES for SAP applications 16.0 0.0.20260916T180043-160000.1.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:23855-1SUSE-SU-2026:23863-1

  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Leap 16.0 0.0.20260916T180043-160000.1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21897-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-73232 updated cvss 7.5

github.com/ffuf/ffuf: ffuf: Denial of Service via HTTP response decompression bomb

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.63% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 50% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

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

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/ffuf/ffuf/v2
<2.2.0
2.2.0
go github.com/ffuf/ffuf
<=1.5.0
all versions
no fix listed

Affected products

  • ffuf ffuf

Classification

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

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.