Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Summary

undici's decompress interceptor decompresses response bodies according to the untrusted Content-Encoding header. While the number of content-encoding layers is capped, the total decompressed output size is unbounded and there is no configuration option to limit it. A malicious or faulty upstream can therefore return a small compressed payload, a compression bomb, that expands to hundreds of megabytes or more in client memory, an asymmetric resource consumption that can exhaust memory and crash the process. This affects undici versions 7.15.0 prior to 7.29.1 and 8.0.0 prior to 8.10.2. Users should upgrade to undici 7.29.1 or 8.10.2.