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AsyncHttpClient: Unbounded WebSocket permessage-deflate decompression enables a decompression-bomb denial of service when compression is enabled

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The AsyncHttpClient (AHC) library allows Java applications to easily execute HTTP requests and asynchronously process HTTP responses. From 2.2.0 until 3.0.14, WebSocket permessage-deflate decompression is unbounded when compression is enabled. The inbound pipeline aggregates compressed frames before WebSocketClientCompressionHandler inflates them, so webSocketMaxFrameSize and webSocketMaxBufferSize do not bound decompressed output. A malicious WebSocket peer can send a small compressed message that expands to a very large Netty buffer and exhausts JVM heap. This issue is fixed in version 3.0.14.

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CVE-2026-107227

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Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-107227

async-http-client

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[
  {
    "vendor": "AsyncHttpClient",
    "product": "async-http-client",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": ">= 3.0.0, < 3.0.14"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": ">= 2.2.0, <= 2.16.1"
      }
    ]
  }
]
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CVE-2026-107227

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