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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-47321"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-21T07:43:24.769Z"
updatedAt: "2026-09-21T18:09:30.104Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-47321"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-47321.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-47321"
title: "Apache MINA: Unbounded Decompression Amplification DoS in Zlib.inflate"
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.\n\nSome 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.\n\n\n\n\nThe 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)\n\n\n\n\nFor application using this feature, it is highly recommended to create the CompressionFilter and to pass the maximum limit as a forth constructor parameter, maxDecompressedSize:\n\n\n\n\npublic 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.\n\n\n\n\nHere are the additional constructor:\n\n\n\n\n\n\npublic CompressionFilter(final boolean compressInbound, final boolean compressOutbound,\n\n\n\n            final int compressionLevel, final int maxDecompressedSize,\n\n\n\n            final long maxDecompressRatio, final long decompressRatioMinSize)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlso note that a fluent API has been added to spare the users the pain to call a constructor with that many parameters:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n CompressionFilter compressionFilter = new CompressionFilter()\n\n                                                .setCompressionLevel(Zlib.COMPRESSION_MAX)\n\n                                                .setMaxDecompressedSize(1_000_000)\n\n                                                .setMaxDecompressRatio(100).\n\n                                                .setDecompressRatioMinSize(100_000); \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nApplications using Apache MINA are advised to upgrade and configure their CompressionFilter instance."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"2.2.0","status":"affected","versionType":"maven","lessThan":"2.2.8"},{"version":"2.1.0","status":"affected","versionType":"maven","lessThan":"2.1.13"},{"version":"2.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"maven","lessThan":"2.0.29"}],"vendor":"Apache Software Foundation","product":"Apache MINA","packageName":"org.apache.mina:mina-filter-compression","collectionURL":"https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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