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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-104827 EUVD-2026-102255GHSA-g4f2-2pf3-2pwj

react/http: Unbounded HTTP Client Response Header Buffering Leads to Memory Exhaustion DoS

Published Oct 15, 2026 · Updated Oct 16, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

react/http is an event-driven, streaming HTTP client and server implementation for ReactPHP. From 1.0.0 until 1.11.1, React\Http\Browser uses ClientRequestStream::handleData() to append response-header bytes to an internal buffer without enforcing a size limit. A remote server can send a valid status line and partial header, withhold the \r\n\r\n or \n\n header terminator, and continue streaming data so the buffer grows for the life of the connection. Applications that fetch attacker-controlled or attacker-influenced URLs, including URLs reached through redirects, can exhaust PHP memory_limit and crash the event-loop or worker process. Confidentiality and integrity are unaffected. This issue is fixed in version 1.11.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
reactphp http >= 1.0.0, < 1.11.1 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS php-react-http No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Packagist react/http >= 1.0.0, < 1.11.1 1.11.1 GHSA-g4f2-2pf3-2pwj

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