On October 21, 2026, Node.js announced the availability of fixes for multiple vulnerabilities across the following supported release lines: 22.x, 24.x, and 26.x. These vulnerabilities impact critical…
A vulnerability in Brotli, Google’s widely used open-source compression library, is putting a broad range of software at risk. About CVE-2026-111497 Alternatively known as “Node2Shell”…
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Researchers have demonstrated remote code execution through CVE-2026-111497, an out-of-bounds write in Google's Brotli decoder library, and public proofs-of-concept (PoCs) are available. Software…
Alarm bells ratcheted up yet again about an AI-discovered vulnerability that could — if exploited in the wild — destabilize vast stretches of the internet. The critical defect — CVE-2026-111497 —…
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An unknown threat actor has infected 953 online stores, most of them running Magento, as part of a long-running campaign active since July 2025. According to Dutch e-commerce security company Sansec…
OverviewOn October 21, 2026, the Node.js Project published a security advisory for CVE-2026-111497, an out-of-bounds write in the Brotli decoder bundled with Node.js. The vulnerability affects the…
A critical flaw dubbed 'HTTP2Shell' in Brotli, the C decoder library built into Node.js, could allow attackers to corrupt memory and access sensitive data.
Research: webframe: evaluated as a scraper and a sandbox webframe is a neat little project from Jeff Lindsay which lets you "run a web page like a program" - you point it at a URL or file and it…
The Node2Shell Brotli flaw (CVE-2026-111497), disclosed alongside Node.js fixes on October 21, 2026, also reaches Python through the PyPI Brotli and brotlicffi packages. Both compile Google’s…
CVE-2026-111497 demonstrates how a single memory-corruption bug in a widely reused native decoder can affect applications far beyond the runtime where it was first discovered. CVE-2026-111497 was…
Posted by Michael Orlitzky on Oct 24 Only those dumb enough to bundle or statically link their dependencies. The bare minimum in terms of software engineering would prevent these 1990-ass…
A memory-corruption flaw in Google's Brotli decoder sits in many programs that unpack Brotli-compressed data, among them Bun, the Python Brotli and brotlicffi packages, and Envoy proxies set up to…
Google heeft een kwetsbaarheid verholpen in de Brotli-decompressiebibliotheek. Deze bibliotheek wordt onder meer gebruikt in Node.js. Een ongeauthenticeerde kwaadwillende kan de kwetsbaarheid op…
Malicious Brotli data can make an application on an official build of Node.js run attacker-supplied code, security researchers at Imperva have demonstrated. Their "Node2Shell" proof of concept ran…