CVE-2026-111497

CVSS 9.8 · CRITICAL
EPSS p100
Higher than 100% of all CVEs — imminent exploitation likely.
Patch available
Vendor advisory or patch linked

Published 10/22/2026 · updated 10/28/2026 · CWE-252, CWE-787

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Summary

A buffer overflow vulnerability in the Brotli decoder (c/dec/decode.c) in Google Brotli versions 1.0.3 through 1.2.0 on all platforms allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to corrupt adjacent decoder state memory, disclose sensitive memory contents, cause a denial of service, or potentially execute arbitrary code using a crafted Brotli-compressed stream. Users need to update any Brotli libraries or binaries between 1.0.3 through 1.2.0 to the latest available version: 1.0.10 or 1.1.1 or 1.2.1.

CVSS 9.8 — CRITICAL

9.8 / 10
  • AV: Network
  • AC: Low complexity
  • PR: No privileges
  • UI: No user interaction
  • S: Scope unchanged
  • C: Confidentiality: High
  • I: Integrity: High
  • A: Availability: High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS exploitation probability

88.0%

Percentile p100 — Higher than 100% of all CVEs — imminent exploitation likely.

Affected products

16 vendor/product entries
  • Google Brotli≥ 1.0.3 and < 1.0.10
  • Nodejs Node.Js< 22.23.4
  • Python Hyper Brotlicffi< 1.2.1.0
  • Microsoft .Net≥ 8.0.0 and < 8.0.33
  • Debian Debian Linuxv12.0
  • Istio Istio< 1.29.9
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Timeline

  1. Oct 22, 2026 · Disclosed / published in NVD
  2. Oct 28, 2026 · Intel last updated

Intel sources

Which upstream feeds returned data for this CVE, and when they were last fetched.

  • NVD· 16 days ago
  • CVE.org· 16 days ago
  • FIRST EPSS· 16 days ago
  • CISA KEV· no data
  • OSV· 16 days ago

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