# GHSA-H2V8-394M-P7VV: Rustls: Brotli certificate decompression can allocate an attacker-controlled amount of memory up to 1 GiB before authentication.

- Also known as: RUSTSEC-2026-0348
- Severity: low (stated by ghsa, no CVSS score)
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.23.46, 0.24.0-dev.2
- Published: 2026-10-27 · Updated: 2026-10-27

## Summary

Rustls, the TLS library, is affected when its optional, disabled-by-default Brotli certificate decompression feature is enabled. A malicious peer can send a specially crafted Brotli-compressed certificate that forces the process to allocate up to 1 GiB of memory before authentication, which can crash applications that run out of memory and cause denial of service.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- rustls (crates.io): fixed in 0.23.46
- rustls (crates.io): from 0.24.0-dev.1, fixed in 0.24.0-dev.2

## Description

### Summary The built-in (but disabled by default) Brotli certificate decoder bounds the output buffer but accepts an input-selected history window. A header of five bytes can specify a 1 GiB window allocation. A peer can abort a process whose allocator cannot satisfy that request. A client must enable Brotli and connect to the peer; a server must enable Brotli and request a client certificate. Neither direction requires a trusted attacker certificate. ### Details rustls calls `BrotliDecompress` which enables Brotli's large-window extension. rustls applies a limit to certificates, but this applies to the decompressed result, and not to any internal allocations the process requires. ### Impact Client applications that enable the `brotli` feature will be vulnerable to malicious servers. Server applications that enable the `brotli` feature and enable client authentication will be vulnerable to malicious clients. Potential for denial of service due to memory exhaustion from peers sending malicious Brotli-encoded certificates, for applications that enable Brotli decompression. ### Acknowledgement Thanks to OpenAI [OutboundDisclosures@openai.com](mailto:OutboundDisclosures@openai.com) for the disclosure.

## What to do

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## References

- https://github.com/rustls/rustls/security/advisories/GHSA-h2v8-394m-p7vv
- https://github.com/rustls/rustls/pull/3297
- https://github.com/rustls/rustls/pull/3354
- https://github.com/rustls/rustls/commit/1aa987af37d0d79b98781d345895ac0059ce345c
- https://github.com/rustls/rustls/commit/402b7b78b7ae87d59e19cf07ee07f3fc19e6537e
- https://github.com/rustls/rustls
- https://github.com/rustls/rustls/releases/tag/v/0.23.46
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2026-0348.html

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