Brotli Client Checker: Test Server for Brotli Decoder Vulnerability (CVE-2026-111497)
Summary
An open-source testing server developed by Aikido Security to evaluate whether HTTP clients and libraries (Node.js fetch, Python requests, PHP curl, Git, cURL) are vulnerable to CVE-2026-111497. The server sends a two-stage crafted Brotli-compressed response over chunked transfer encoding to safely identify crash-prone or memory-corrupted Brotli decoders.
Why it matters
Provides security teams and developers with a simple, zero-dependency mechanism to test whether backend microservices, crawlers, and HTTP clients are susceptible to the widespread Node2Shell/HTTP2Shell Brotli decoder flaw.
- CVE
- CVE-2026-111497
- Published
- Collected
--- id: 10402 title: "Brotli Client Checker: Test Server for Brotli Decoder Vulnerability (CVE-2026-111497)" cve: CVE-2026-111497 source_domain: github.com source_url: "https://github.com/AikidoSec/brotli-client-checker" published_at: "2026-10-27T14:55:14Z" tags: ["rce", "red-team", "defense", "brotli"] phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/10402" lang: en --- # Brotli Client Checker: Test Server for Brotli Decoder Vulnerability (CVE-2026-111497) ## Summary An open-source testing server developed by Aikido Security to evaluate whether HTTP clients and libraries (Node.js fetch, Python requests, PHP curl, Git, cURL) are vulnerable to CVE-2026-111497. The server sends a two-stage crafted Brotli-compressed response over chunked transfer encoding to safely identify crash-prone or memory-corrupted Brotli decoders. ## Why it matters Provides security teams and developers with a simple, zero-dependency mechanism to test whether backend microservices, crawlers, and HTTP clients are susceptible to the widespread Node2Shell/HTTP2Shell Brotli decoder flaw. ## Intelligence Metadata - **Sources:** github.com - **CVE:** CVE-2026-111497 - **Published:** 2026-10-27T14:55:14Z - **Original:** https://github.com/AikidoSec/brotli-client-checker - **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/10402