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CWE-409: Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)

Base Incomplete

The product does not handle or incorrectly
handles a compressed input with a very high compression ratio
that produces a large output.

Source: MITRE CWE-409

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  • Medium 6.5

    LeafWiki 0.10.0 through 0.12.0 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption via Unbounded ZIP Extraction

    LeafWiki extracts an uploaded ZIP archive without limiting how much data it will write. ZipExtractor.ExtractToDir in internal/importer/zip_extractor.go opens each entry and copies it to the destination with io.Copy, which runs to the end of the decompressed s…

  • Medium 6.5

    WeeChat has a Decompression Bomb in Relay WebSocket (DoS)

    WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a free chat client. In versions 4.3.0 through 4.9.0, the WeeChat relay module's WebSocket permessage-deflate decompression function relay_websocket_inflate() has no upper bound on output size. An authenticated re…

  • Medium 6.5

    Grav: Decompression Bomb via ZipArchiver - Missing Extraction Limits

    Grav is a file-based Web platform. Prior to 2.0.1, Grav ZipArchiver::extract() in system/src/Grav/Common/Filesystem/ZipArchiver.php passes archives to ZipArchive::extractTo() without enforcing the system.gpm.archive uncompressed-size, file-count, or nesting-d…

  • Medium 6.5

    Improper handling of highly compressed data (data amplification) in CISA Malcolm

    Malcolm's upload-processing pipeline (scripts/safe-extract.py) enforces entry-count, nesting-depth, and total-uncompressed-byte limits when extracting container archives (zip/tar/rar/7z via libarchive), but those limits are not applied when the uploaded file …

  • Medium 4.9

    Wazuh 4.4.0 < 4.14.7 DoS via fdecompress_files() Zip Bomb

    Wazuh 4.4.0 before 4.14.7 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the fdecompress_files() function within cluster.py that allows authenticated cluster peers to exhaust memory by supplying a malicious synchronization archive without decompressed size lim…

  • Medium 6.9

    Resource Exhaustion in Carbone

    Carbone is vulnerable to Denial of Service due to lack of protection against zip bombs when processing .docx files. The library uses yazl for zip decompression without validating entry sizes, allowing an attacker to supply a malicious .docx file containing a …

  • Medium 6.5

    In JetBrains YouTrack before 2026.2.18177 doS attack was possible via a decompression bomb in the import endpoint

  • Medium 6.2

    Denial of Service (CPU & Memory Exhaustion) via O(N^2) String Concatenation in Debian Package Upload

    Denial of Service (CPU & Memory Exhaustion) via O(N^2) String Concatenation in Debian Package Upload

  • Medium 6.5

    Boards archive import endpoint allows resource exhaustion via zip bomb and file size limit bypass in Mattermost

    Mattermost versions 11.9.x <= 11.9.0, 11.8.x <= 11.8.4, 11.7.x <= 11.7.7, 10.11.x <= 10.11.22 fail to limit decompressed content size and enforce the configured maximum file size in the Boards archive import handler, which allows an authenticated user to caus…

  • Medium 6.5

    Cloudreve: Server crash through image decompression/pixel bomb in thumbnail & avatar decoding (DoS)

    Cloudreve is a self-hosted file management and sharing system. Prior to 4.17.0, the built-in thumbnail and avatar image decoders limit compressed file size but do not limit decoded pixel dimensions, allowing an authenticated user to submit a small PNG, JPEG, …

  • Medium 6.5

    Mattermost Server Denial of Service via Animated GIF Emoji Upload

    Mattermost versions 11.6.x <= 11.6.5, 10.11.x <= 10.11.20, 11.8.x <= 11.8.1, 11.7.x <= 11.7.4 fail to limit the number of frames and enforce the file size cap on animated GIF uploads, which allows an authenticated attacker to cause a denial of service via a c…

  • Medium 6.5

    adawolfa/isdoc: Uncontrolled resource consumption (decompression bomb) when reading untrusted ISDOCX or PDF files

    ### Impact `adawolfa/isdoc` reads ISDOC invoices from ISDOCX (ZIP) archives and from PDF files with embedded ISDOC documents and supplements. Affected versions inflate ZIP entries and read embedded files **without validating their uncompressed size**, so a sm…

  • Medium 6.5

    Grav before 2.0.2 Decompression Bomb via Forged ZIP Size

    Grav 2.0.1 contains a decompression-bomb size-cap bypass in ZipArchiver and GPM\Installer. The size bound introduced in 2.0.1 sums the uncompressed size declared in each entry's ZIP central-directory header (ZipArchive::statIndex()['size']) and rejects archiv…

  • Medium 6.0

    An attacker with access to an HX 10.0.0  and previous versions, may send specially-crafted data to the HX console. The …

  • Medium 5.5

    CredSweeper: Recursive archive size-limit bypass in deep scanner allows crafted compressed inputs to exhaust resources

    ### Summary CredSweeper's deep scanner does not enforce `recursive_limit_size` as a hard limit. Several recursive scanners fully decompress or fully read attacker-controlled content before the remaining budget is validated, and `AbstractScanner.recursive_scan…

  • Medium 6.9

    Grav CMS — Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data in Installer::unZip()

    Grav is a file-based Web platform. Prior to 2.0.0, an authenticated admin.super user can crash Grav or fill the disk by uploading a specially crafted ZIP archive through the Direct Install tool because Installer::unZip calls ZipArchive::extractTo without limi…

  • Medium 6.5

    Grav before 2.0.1 Decompression Bomb via ZipArchiver

    Grav before 2.0.1 contains a decompression bomb vulnerability in ZipArchiver::extract() that lacks limits on uncompressed size, file count, and nesting depth. Attackers can supply a crafted ZIP archive that expands to fill available disk space, causing denial…

  • Medium 6.5

    Coder: Zip upload decompression lacks aggregate size limit, enabling denial of service

    Coder allows organizations to provision remote development environments via Terraform. Starting in version 2.17.0 and prior to versions 2.29.7, 2.32.7, 2.33.8, and 2.34.2, `POST /api/v2/files` converts zip uploads to tar in memory via `CreateTarFromZip`, whic…

  • Medium 5.5

    Docling: Unsafe Archive Extraction and XML Parsing in METS-GBS Backend

    Docling simplifies document processing by parsing diverse formats and providing integrations with the generative AI ecosystem. From 2.45.0 until 2.91.0, the METS-GBS backend's XML parsing and the input document format detection lacked security controls. An at…

  • Medium 6.3

    n8n: Denial of Service via ZIP decompression in webhook workflow

    n8n is an open source workflow automation platform. Prior to 2.24.0, the Compression node's Decompress operation expanded attacker-controlled archives into memory without enforcing limits on decompressed output size. An unauthenticated attacker could send a s…

  • Medium 6.5

    vLLM: OOM Denial of Service via Audio Decompression Bomb

    vLLM is an inference and serving engine for large language models (LLMs). Prior to 0.23.1rc0, vLLM's /v1/audio/transcriptions endpoint limits compressed upload size but not decoded PCM output. A 25MB OPUS file expands to ~14.9GB of float32 PCM at decode time.…

  • Medium 6.3

    MessagePack-CSharp: LZ4 decompression allocates from unbounded declared output lengths

    MessagePack for C# is a MessagePack serializer for C#. Prior to 2.5.301 and 3.1.7, when MessagePack-CSharp decompresses Lz4Block or Lz4BlockArray payloads, it reads declared uncompressed lengths from the wire and allocates output buffers based on those length…

  • Medium 6.6

    AIOHTTP: Unread Compressed Request Bodies Bypass client_max_size During Cleanup

    AIOHTTP is an asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python. Prior to 3.14.1, during cleanup it is possible for a compressed request body to be decompressed into memory in one chunk. An attacker may be able to send a compressed payload in s…

  • Medium —

    NIOExtras: NIOHTTPRequestDecompressor ratio limit bypass via inflated Content-Length

    ### Impact When `NIOHTTPRequestDecompressor` is configured with `.ratio(N)`, the decompression limit is enforced using the `Content-Length` header value from the incoming request rather than the actual number of compressed bytes received. Since `Content-Lengt…

  • Medium 5.3

    ExifReader is vulnerable to denial of service via unbounded decompression of image metadata

    Versions of the package exifreader before 4.39.0 are vulnerable to Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) due to decompressing PNG zTXt metadata without enforcing a built-in maximum decompressed output size. When asynchronous parsing…

  • Medium 4.9

    Audiobookshelf: Memory amplification DoS via oversized compressed details entry in backup upload

    Audiobookshelf is a self-hosted audiobook and podcast server. Prior to 2.32.2, the POST /api/backups/upload endpoint decompresses the details entry from an uploaded .audiobookshelf ZIP file entirely into memory using zip.entryData(), with no limit on the deco…

  • Medium 6.5

    Tandoor Recipes Affected by Denial of Service via Recipe Import

    Tandoor Recipes is an application for managing recipes, planning meals, and building shopping lists. Prior to 2.6.5, a critical Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability was in the recipe import functionality. This vulnerability allows an authenticated user to cr…

  • Medium 6.5

    PraisonAI Affected by Decompression Bomb DoS via Recipe Bundle Extraction Without Size Limits

    PraisonAI is a multi-agent teams system. Prior to 4.5.128, the _safe_extractall() function in PraisonAI's recipe registry validates archive members against path traversal attacks but performs no checks on individual member sizes, cumulative extracted size, or…

  • Medium 5.3

    JWCrypto: JWE ZIP decompression bomb

    JWCrypto implements JWK, JWS, and JWE specifications using python-cryptography. Prior to 1.5.7, an unauthenticated attacker can exhaust server memory by sending crafted JWE tokens with ZIP compression. The existing patch for CVE-2024-28102 limits input token …

  • Medium 6.5

    Zip Bomb Denial of Service via Unrestricted Archive Decompression

    Mattermost versions 11.4.x <= 11.4.0, 11.3.x <= 11.3.1, 11.2.x <= 11.2.3, 10.11.x <= 10.11.11 fail to validate decompressed archive entry sizes during file extraction which allows authenticated users with file upload permissions to cause a denial of service v…

  • Medium 5.5

    OpenClaw < 2026.3.2 - Tar Archive Safety Bypass in Skills Installation

    OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.3.2 contain an archive extraction vulnerability in the tar.bz2 installer path that bypasses safety checks enforced on other archive formats. Attackers can craft malicious tar.bz2 skill archives to bypass special-entry blocking …

  • Medium 5.3

    Keycloak: keycloak: denial of service due to excessive samlrequest decompression

    A flaw was found in Keycloak. An unauthenticated remote attacker can trigger an application level Denial of Service (DoS) by sending a highly compressed SAMLRequest through the SAML Redirect Binding. The server fails to enforce size limits during DEFLATE deco…

  • Medium 5.3

    file-type affected by ZIP Decompression Bomb DoS via [Content_Types].xml entry

    file-type detects the file type of a file, stream, or data. From 20.0.0 to 21.3.1, a crafted ZIP file can trigger excessive memory growth during type detection in file-type when using fileTypeFromBuffer(), fileTypeFromBlob(), or fileTypeFromFile(). The ZIP in…

  • Medium 6.9

    Pre-auth SSH DoS via unbounded zlib inflate

    Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Compression Bomb) vulnerability in Erlang OTP ssh (ssh_transport modules) allows Denial of Service via Resource Depletion. The SSH transport layer advertises legacy zlib compression by default and inflates attacker…

  • Medium 6.5

    MarkUs: Zip bomb in config upload enables DoS

    MarkUs is a web application for the submission and grading of student assignments. Prior to version 2.9.4, MarkUs currently extracts zip files without any size or entry-count limits. For example, instructors can upload a zip file to provide an assignment conf…

  • Medium 6.8

    psd-tools: Compression module has unguarded zlib decompression, missing dimension validation, and hardening gaps

    psd-tools is a Python package for working with Adobe Photoshop PSD files. Prior to version 1.12.2, when a PSD file contains malformed RLE-compressed image data (e.g. a literal run that extends past the expected row size), decode_rle() raises ValueError which …

  • Medium 5.9

    nats-server websockets are vulnerable to pre-auth memory DoS

    NATS-Server is a High-Performance server for NATS.io, a cloud and edge native messaging system. The WebSockets handling of NATS messages handles compressed messages via the WebSockets negotiated compression. Prior to versions 2.11.2 and 2.12.3, the implementa…

  • Medium 5.9

    Next.js has Unbounded Memory Consumption via PPR Resume Endpoint

    A denial of service vulnerability exists in Next.js versions with Partial Prerendering (PPR) enabled when running in minimal mode. The PPR resume endpoint accepts unauthenticated POST requests with the `Next-Resume: 1` header and processes attacker-controlled…

  • Medium 5.3

    In python-jose 3.3.0 (specifically jwe.decrypt), a vulnerability allows an attacker to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) …

  • Medium 6.6

    pypdf manipulated LZWDecode streams can exhaust RAM

    pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to version 6.4.0, an attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to a memory usage of up to 1 GB per stream. This requires parsing the content stream of a page using the LZWDe…