High [CVE-2026-47321] Apache MINA: The CompressionFilter class uses ZLib to deflate and inflate data sent and received
This high-severity Apache Software Foundation advisory covers CVE-2026-47321; related products: Apache MINA.
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Summary
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.
- Apache MINA 2.2.0 before 2.2.8
- Apache MINA 2.1.0 before 2.1.13
- Apache MINA 2.0.0 before 2.0.29
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- 2.2.8
- 2.1.13
- 2.0.29
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Mitigation checklist
- The fix adds such a control by allowing the application developer to provide a fixed size limit, which when reached throws an exception.
- Applications using Apache MINA are advised to upgrade and configure their CompressionFilter instance.
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