Vulnerability Analysis: CVE-2026-111497 Critical out-of-bounds write in the Node.js Brotli decoder
Introduction In modern web architectures, data compression plays a pivotal role in reducing network bandwidth consumption, optimizing server response times, and accelerating overall web content delivery across distributed networks. Brotli—a popular lossless data compression algorithm originally developed by Google—has quickly established itself as a ubiquitous open-source standard widely integrated across major web browsers, edge reverse proxies, content delivery networks (CDNs), and backend server