High severity · published Sep 21, 2026
CVE-2026-47321
Apache MINA: Unbounded Decompression Amplification DoS in Zlib.inflate
7.5
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The CompressionFilter class uses ZLib to deflate and inflate data sent and received. When we inflate incoming data, the filter does not control the resulting size, and create a buffer no matter what.
Some compressed data may have a compression ration greater than 1 thousand, leading to an exhaustion of the application memory, as we don't control the deflated size.
The fix adds such a control by allowing the application developer to provide a fixed size limit, which when reached throws an exception. It also allows the user to provide a compression ratio that should not be exceeded, protected the application from small inflated files that inflate in gigantic files, but with a grace limit for the resulting size (1Mb) to avoid false positive (like a very small file inflating with a high ratio, but resulting with a acceptable size, like a few thousands bytes)
For application using this feature, it is highly recommended to create the CompressionFilter and to pass the maximum limit as a forth constructor parameter, maxDecompressedSize:
public CompressionFilter(final boolean compressInbound, final boolean compressOutbound, final int compressionLevel, final int maxDecompressedSize)Optionally one can also provide a maxDecompressRatio fifth parameter, and a decompressRatioMinSize sixth parameter to allow small inflated files with a high compression ratio to still be accepted.
Here are the additional constructor:
public CompressionFilter(final boolean compressInbound, final boolean compressOutbound,
final int compressionLevel, final int maxDecompressedSize,
final long maxDecompressRatio, final long decompressRatioMinSize)
Also note that a fluent API has been added to spare the users the pain to call a constructor with that many parameters:
CompressionFilter compressionFilter = new CompressionFilter()
.setCompressionLevel(Zlib.COMPRESSION_MAX)
.setMaxDecompressedSize(1_000_000)
.setMaxDecompressRatio(100).
.setDecompressRatioMinSize(100_000);
Applications using Apache MINA are advised to upgrade and configure their CompressionFilter instance.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 42% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AM
Apache MINA · Apache Software Foundation
2.2.0 before 2.2.8; 2.1.0 before 2.1.13; 2.0.0 before 2.0.29 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-47321
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-47321
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread/y7xj1bl8qo47p9bktb11hg5v6k1d4dyj
www.openwall.com
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/09/21/1
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