GHSA-vc2v-76pw-4v95: compression (CVE-2026-87776)

Package	Ecosystem	Affected	Fixed in
compression	npm	<1.8.2	1.8.2

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

The npm package compression, versions before 1.8.2, is vulnerable to a denial of service caused by a memory leak when a client disconnects before a compressed response finishes. The zlib stream for each aborted response is never destroyed, so repeated aborted requests can exhaust memory; the source does not say whether any special access is needed beyond sending requests. Users should upgrade to compression 1.8.2, and the source lists no workarounds.

Written 31 Oct 2026.

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
7.5	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CNA (openjs)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0048, the 41st percentile, on 7 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

31 Oct 2026, 13:34 UTC First seen by agentprime
31 Oct 2026, 13:34 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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