CVE-2026-116591

compress zstd: Panic on two-block frames

compress provides various compression algorithms. Prior to 1.20.2, the zstd DecodeAll and streaming decoder paths can panic when a crafted two-block frame reaches huff0.ReadTable with an FSE normalized count of 32768 that readNCount stores in int16 as -32768. The wrapped count allows buildDtable to retain stale fse.Scratch decode-table state from the prior block, and nextFast then derives an out-of-range state and indexes beyond the table instead of returning a decode error. Both blocks are required to preserve and then reuse the stale state, allowing untrusted zstd input to crash an application. This issue is fixed in version 1.20.2.

Affected

klauspost · compress

CVSS v4.0 GITHUB

8.7 HIGHCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

CVSS v4.0 GitHub

8.7 HIGHCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

EPSS

0.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 26th percentile

Published

2026-10-26

Updated

2026-10-27

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• advisories/GHSA-fpmh-frq8-7rj8find archive

CVE references

• klauspost/compress/commit/7f5d8528720c895a6106f201719f87eb030a565dREFERENCE
• klauspost/compress/releases/tag/v1.20.2REFERENCE
• klauspost/compress/security/advisories/GHSA-fpmh-frq8-7rj8REFERENCE

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry