OpenAI researchers find remote-code flaw in Brotli, prompting runtime patches

Node.js released fixes on October 21st after OpenAI Codex Security researchers reported a Brotli decoder bug that can allow code execution when applications process malicious compressed data.

Covered by 3 publishers within 16 hours of the first report.

Summary from RuntimeWire.

Reporting3

THN The Hacker News Researchers Demonstrate Node2Shell RCE Exploit on Node.js Build Using Crafted Brotli Data · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) 3:50 AM

CSN Cyber Security News New Node2Shell Node.js RCE Exploit Let Attackers Execute Malicious Code Through Brotli-Compressed Data · Abinaya 10:11 AM

RTW RuntimeWire OpenAI researchers find remote-code flaw in Brotli, prompting runtime patches · Ryan Merket 7:26 PM

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