GHSA-xjj6-f33q-929c
undici vulnerable to Denial of Service via unhandled error on excessive content-encodings
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Impact
undici's `fetch()` crashes the Node.js process when a malicious server returns a response with more than five content codings and closes the connection before sending the body. undici rejects such responses (a content-encoding limit), but it created the internal response stream before that check and returned without attaching an error listener or aborting the request. The early close then surfaces a content-length mismatch on that orphaned internal stream, which Node.js treats as an unhandled `error` and terminates the process. A remote, unauthenticated server can trigger this with a single response, even when the application correctly catches the `fetch()` rejection. undici 6.x, 7.x, and 8.x are affected.
### Patches
Upgrade to `6.29.1`, `7.30.1`, or `8.12.2`. undici now validates the content-encoding chain before creating the internal body stream and aborts the response when the limit is exceeded, so no error can surface on an orphaned stream.
### Workarounds
None.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/nodejs/undici/security/advisories/GHSA-xjj6-f33q-929c
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-109869
- https://github.com/nodejs/undici/commit/07ded4941b1e72afec862958c3b8ddf468f3b429
- https://github.com/nodejs/undici/commit/1325a87dfb3492f8e87e6b0a84b3bda4e82e3436
- https://github.com/nodejs/undici/commit/b5084c7dc239172d75c336b1cd51ddac023938a5
- https://cna.openjsf.org/security-advisories.html
- https://github.com/nodejs/undici
- https://github.com/nodejs/undici/releases/tag/v6.29.1
- https://github.com/nodejs/undici/releases/tag/v7.30.1
- https://github.com/nodejs/undici/releases/tag/v8.12.2