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Broccoli2shell: Everything You Need To Know About The Critical Brotli Decoder Vulnerability
Detect and mitigate CVE-2026-111497, a critical Brotli decoder vulnerability enables remote code execution.
A critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-111497 and referred to as Broccoli2Shell, has been identified in the Brotli decompression library. The vulnerability affects multiple widely used technologies, including Node.js, Bun, Envoy Proxy, and more. Successful exploitation could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to trigger memory corruption, disclose sensitive information, crash affected processes, or potentially achieve remote code execution (RCE). Organizations using affected components to decompress untrusted Brotli-compressed data are advised to prioritize remediation. CVE-2026-111497 was discovered and reported by Khai Tran and Sylvie Mayer (OpenAI Codex Security),…
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