# CVE-2026-47321: Apache MINA: Unbounded Decompression Amplification DoS in Zlib.inflate

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.2.8, 2.1.13, 2.0.29
- Published: 2026-09-21 · Updated: 2026-09-21

## Affected

- org.apache.mina:mina-filter-compression: from 2.2.0, fixed in 2.2.8; from 2.1.0, fixed in 2.1.13; from 2.0.0, fixed in 2.0.29

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on org.apache.mina:mina-filter-compression, upgrade to a fixed version (2.2.8, 2.1.13, 2.0.29) per the references below.
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## References

- https://lists.apache.org/thread/y7xj1bl8qo47p9bktb11hg5v6k1d4dyj

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