CVE-2026-44981

CrowdSec LAPI is affected. The LAPI router uses gin-contrib/gzip with DefaultDecompressHandle globally in pkg/apiserver/controllers/controller.go, causing unauthenticated gzip payloads to be decompressed on /v1/watchers and /v1/watchers/login without a maximum decompressed size, which can trigger...

CVE-2026-44981 CrowdSec LAPI: Denial of Service via Unbounded Gzip Decompression

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...