CVE-2026-44981

Description

CrowdSec offers crowdsourced protection against malicious IPs. From 1.7.0 until 1.7.8, the LAPI router used gin-contrib/gzip with DefaultDecompressHandle globally in pkg/apiserver/controllers/controller.go, causing /v1/watchers and /v1/watchers/login to decompress unauthenticated gzip-compressed JSON request bodies without enforcing a maximum decompressed size and allowing excessive heap allocation that can make LAPI unreachable. This issue is fixed in version 1.7.8.

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Weakness Type (CWE)

CWE-409 CWE-409

References

Other References

https://github.com/crowdsecurity/crowdsec/commit/54a0dfe6c16b7687b0da6634e0b19ef0f5d9bb30 https://github.com/crowdsecurity/crowdsec/commit/56d0d6915f7f25941dc5b4f484028646f6601a37 https://github.com/crowdsecurity/crowdsec/security/advisories/GHSA-273h-gvwr-c3qj

Frequently Asked Questions

What is CVE-2026-44981? +

CrowdSec offers crowdsourced protection against malicious IPs. From 1.7.0 until 1.7.8, the LAPI router used gin-contrib/gzip with DefaultDecompressHandle globally in pkg/apiserver/controllers/controller.go, causing /v1/watchers and /v1/watchers/login to decompress unauthenticated gzip-compressed JSON request bodies without enforcing a maximum decompressed size and allowing excessive heap allocation that can make LAPI unreachable. This issue is fixed in version 1.7.8.

How do I check if I'm vulnerable to CVE-2026-44981? +

You can use Secably's free Website Scanner to check your website for known vulnerabilities. For infrastructure scanning, use the Port Scanner to identify exposed services that may be affected. Check the vendor advisories linked above for specific patch and version information.

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