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[GHSA] GHSA-x424-64qh-5j54 (high) — react/http: A malformed HTTP chunked body can lead to a denial-of-service and peg the CPU
GHSA-x424-64qh-5j54 Severity: high CVE: CVE-2026-84997
react/http: A malformed HTTP chunked body can lead to a denial-of-service and peg the CPU
### Summary
A malformed HTTP message using `Transfer-Encoding: chunked` can drive `React\Http\Io\ChunkedDecoder` into an infinite loop, pegging a CPU core and freezing the event loop. Because ReactPHP is single-threaded, one such message stalls the ent
Indicators of compromise
- CVE-2026-84997cve
Original source: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x424-64qh-5j54