Brotli Decoder Bug Sparks Cross-Platform RCE Risk — What to Know and Do
A memory-corruption flaw in Google's Brotli decoder (tracked as CVE-2026-111497) has rippled through numerous runtimes and libraries that embed the decoder, creating potential crash, memory-leak, or remote code execution vectors when untrusted Brotli-compressed data is processed. The issue was disclosed on October 21 after fixes began appearing in Node.js and Google’s Brotli source, and researchers from Imperva demonstrated code execution against an unpatched Node.js build. No confirmed in-the-wild exploitation has…