Broccoli2Shell
Critical ‘HTTP2Shell’ Brotli vulnerability triggers emergency patches
A critical flaw dubbed ‘HTTP2Shell’ in Brotli, the C decoder library built into Node.js, could allow attackers to corrupt memory and access sensitive data. The security issue is tracked as CVE-2026-111497 and is also known as “Broccoli2Shell” and “Node2Shell.” It affects Brotli versions 1.0.3 through 1.0.9, 1.1.0, and 1.2.0. The vulnerability has been reported under […]
Microsoft releases emergency .NET patches for critical Brotli flaw
Microsoft released emergency .NET security updates to patch a critical vulnerability known as Broccoli2Shell, also tracked as Node2Shell and HTTP2Shell. Tracked as CVE-2026-111497, this critical-severity flaw stems from an out-of-bounds write in the Brotli decoder, which expands data compressed using Google’s widely used Brotli lossless compression algorithm. HTTP2Shell impacts HTTP clients and servers, as well […]