CVE-2026-61902: Apache bRPC: Memory Exhaustion Through Inconsistent Message Body Limits
Apache bRPC versions before 1.18.0 do not consistently enforce the configured maxbodysize limit in non-progressive HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 parsing and in memcache and couchbase response parsing.
A remote unauthenticated peer can cause an affected process to buffer message data beyond the configured limit, which may lead to memory exhaustion and denial of service. Users should upgrade to 1.18.0 or apply the patch from PR https://github.com/apache/brpc/pull/3382 . The fix rejects oversized buffered HTTP bodies, returns HTTP 413 for HTTP/1 requests, resets oversized HTTP/2 streams, and rejects oversized memcache and couchbase responses from their declared lengths. Progressive HTTP reading remains supported because it uses bounded buffering.
Affected Software
Remediation
Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.
- Upgrade
Upgrade
Apache bRPCto a version that resolves this vulnerability.Fixed in 1.18.0