OpenAI researchers found a Brotli remote-code flaw that could let malicious compressed data take over unpatched servers or clients, and Node.js has already pushed fixes.Read original on X
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Brotli compression flaw could let malicious data take over servers
Node.js has already shipped fixes, but unpatched servers and clients remain exposed to the flaw.
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