GHSA-992w-gmcm-fmgr: TinyWeb has Unbounded Content-Length Memory Exhaustion (DoS)

Published Feb 25, 2026
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Updated

TinyWeb is a web server (HTTP, HTTPS) written in Delphi for Win32. Versions prior to version 2.02 have a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability via memory exhaustion. Unauthenticated remote attackers can send an HTTP POST request to the server with an exceptionally large Content-Length header (e.g., 2147483647). The server continuously allocates memory for the request body (EntityBody) while streaming the payload without enforcing any maximum limit, leading to all available memory being consumed and causing the server to crash. Anyone hosting services using TinyWeb is impacted. Version 2.02 fixes the issue. The patch introduces a CMaxEntityBodySize limit (set to 10MB) for the maximum size of accepted payloads. As a temporary workaround if upgrading is not immediately possible, consider placing the server behind a Web Application Firewall (WAF) or reverse proxy (like nginx or Cloudflare) configured to explicitly limit the maximum allowed HTTP request body size (e.g., clientmaxbodysize in nginx).

Affected Software

1 affected component
TinyWeb TinyWeb<2.02

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade TinyWeb to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 2.02
  2. Compensating control

    Until upgrading, place TinyWeb behind a Web Application Firewall or reverse proxy such as nginx or Cloudflare, configured to explicitly limit the maximum allowed HTTP request body size; in nginx, use client_max_body_size and set the limit to 10MB.

Event History

Feb 25, 2026
CVE Published
via OSV·11:07 PM
Data Sourced
via OSV·11:07 PM
DescriptionSeverityWeakness

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