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Security checkSeptember 29, 2025

Denial of Service in content

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Description

Versions of content are vulnerable to Denial of Service. The Content-Encoding HTTP header parser has a vulnerability which will cause the function to throw a system error if the header contains some invalid values.

Recommendation

No fix is available yet. Followings are affected versions:

  • <= 4.0.6

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