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#5 SecurityWeek general October 26, 2026 at 10:21 UTC

Node2Shell: Brotli Flaw Triggers Patching Across Microsoft, Node.js, Python Packages

By Eduard Kovacs

AI Summary

An out-of-bounds write vulnerability in Google's Brotli decoder, dubbed Node2Shell, affects a broad ecosystem including Node.js, Microsoft .NET, PowerShell, and Python packages, and is exploitable for remote code execution. The cross-ecosystem scope of this flaw demands urgent patching across multiple language runtimes and Microsoft products.

Relevance score: 85.0/100

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