Security context

What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.

klauspost/compress

              master @ bd9228c
            

Fixes

CVEs

CRITICAL

Peak severity

Highlights

Side-Channel Attack: 1 prior fix. Scrutinize any change in this area.

gzhttp: most-fixed (1 issue). Treat as high-risk during review.

0 high-severity fixes in this history; regressions here are high-impact.

Recurring patterns

The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.

Side-Channel Attack: Attackers can exploit compressed response size variations (BREACH attack) to extract sensitive secrets such as CSRF tokens. This requires content-aware randomized padding to obfuscate output sizes.