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| Vulnerability_id | VCID-h1k4-x8vr-5bch |
| Summary | Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Compression Bomb) vulnerability in Erlang OTP ssh (ssh_transport modules) allows Denial of Service via Resource Depletion. The SSH transport layer advertises legacy zlib compression by default and inflates attacker-controlled payloads pre-authentication without any size limit, enabling reliable memory exhaustion DoS. Two compression algorithms are affected: * zlib: Activates immediately after key exchange, enabling unauthenticated attacks * zlib@openssh.com: Activates post-authentication, enabling authenticated attacks Each SSH packet can decompress ~255 MB from 256 KB of wire data (1029:1 amplification ratio). Multiple packets can rapidly exhaust available memory, causing OOM kills in memory-constrained environments. This vulnerability is associated with program files lib/ssh/src/ssh_transport.erl and program routines ssh_transport:decompress/2, ssh_transport:handle_packet_part/4. This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 until OTP 28.4.1, 27.3.4.9 and 26.2.5.18 corresponding to ssh from 3.0.1 until 5.5.1, 5.2.11.6 and 5.1.4.14. |
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https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2026-23943 |
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2026-04-02T12:55:00Z |
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2026-04-04T12:55:00Z |
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2026-04-12T12:55:00Z |
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0.31217 |
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2026-04-11T12:55:00Z |
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epss |
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0.31212 |
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2026-04-09T12:55:00Z |
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0.00121 |
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epss |
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2026-04-08T12:55:00Z |
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2026-04-07T12:55:00Z |
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2026-04-13T12:55:00Z |
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https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2026-23943 |
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Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) |
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The product does not handle or incorrectly handles a compressed input with a very high compression ratio that produces a large output. |
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| Severity_range_score | 5.3 - 6.9 |
| Exploitability | 0.5 |
| Weighted_severity | 6.2 |
| Risk_score | 3.1 |
| Resource_url | http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/vulnerabilities/VCID-h1k4-x8vr-5bch |