CVE-2026-84997

HIGHPre-NVD 7.57.5—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

This high-severity CVE scores 7.5 under a secondary CVSS source (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit probability: 0.5%, top 55% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).

Triggered by: NVD CVSS baseline
Sources: epss, secondary
Trending — 3 sources updated this weekElevated
7.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 1%CVSS: 7.5Exploit: Elevated riskExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

react/http is an event-driven, streaming HTTP client and server implementation for ReactPHP. From 0.6.0 until 1.11.1, React\Http\Io\ChunkedDecoder could enter an infinite loop while processing a malformed Transfer-Encoding: chunked body because handleData required its buffer to shrink on every iteration. An incomplete terminal-chunk trailer without CRLF left the buffer unchanged after strpos returned false, and exactly two non-CRLF bytes after a completed non-terminal chunk bypassed both the error and wait guards. The affected decoder processes request bodies for React\Http\HttpServer and response bodies for React\Http\Browser, allowing a malicious client to freeze a server or a malicious or compromised server to freeze a client. A reverse proxy that normalizes inbound requests may protect the server direction but does not protect outbound Browser requests. This issue is fixed in version 1.11.1.

CVSS v3
7.5
EG Score
7.5(medium)
EG Risk
65(Attend)
EG Risk 65/100SSVC: Attend

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity75% × 45%
Exploitation40% × 40%
Automatability100% × 15%
Action: Remediate soon — notable exploitation risk.
EPSS PROB
1%
EPSS %ILE
45%
KEV
Not listed

Published

September 16, 2026

Last Modified

September 16, 2026

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Sep 16, 2026
🔬 Proof of concept available. Patch available. Sources: github, github_commit, github_release.
github_release Patch Available

v1.11.1

Patch available: reactphp/http v1.11.1

https://github.com/reactphp/http/releases/tag/v1.11.1
github_commit Patch Available

commit b6d4688790ad (reactphp/http)

Patch available: reactphp/http v1.11.1 (contains commit b6d4688790ad)

https://github.com/reactphp/http/commit/b6d4688790adf3797071fcf88a3fc4225f30486a
github Patch Available🟡 PoC Available

A malformed HTTP chunked body can lead to a denial-of-service and peg the CPU · Advisory · reactphp/http · GitHub

https://github.com/reactphp/http/security/advisories/GHSA-x424-64qh-5j54

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-84997(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 9× in last 7d / 9× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-09-19 19:11 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-09-18 21:29 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-09-18 19:28 UTCEPSS rescore
  4. 2026-09-17 23:50 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-09-17 19:32 UTCEPSS rescore
  6. 2026-09-16 15:20 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-09-16 14:51 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-09-16 14:26 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-09-16 14:25 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-84997?
CVE-2026-84997 is a high vulnerability published on September 16, 2026. react/http is an event-driven, streaming HTTP client and server implementation for ReactPHP. From 0.6.0 until 1.11.1, React\Http\Io\ChunkedDecoder could enter an infinite loop while processing a malformed Transfer-Encoding: chunked body because handleData required its buffer to shrink on every…
When was CVE-2026-84997 disclosed?
CVE-2026-84997 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on September 16, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-84997 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-84997 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 55.2% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-84997?
CVE-2026-84997 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-84997?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-84997, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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