Weakness (CWE)
CWE-409: Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)
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 6.5CVE-2025-63914 Public exploit
An issue was discovered in Cinnamon kotaemon 0.11.0. The _may_extract_zip function in the \libs\ktem\ktem\index\file\ui…
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Medium 6.6
pypdf manipulated LZWDecode streams can exhaust RAM
pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to version 6.1.3, an attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to large memory usage. This requires parsing the content stream of a page using the LZWDecode filter. This has…
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Medium 6.5
ProcessWire CMS vulnerable to resource-exhaustion Denial of Service
ProcessWire CMS 3.0.246 allows a low-privileged user with lang-edit to upload a crafted ZIP to Language Support that is auto-extracted without limits prior to validation, enabling resource-exhaustion Denial of Service.
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Medium 6.9
Netty's BrotliDecoder is vulnerable to DoS via zip bomb style attack
Netty is an asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients. In netty-codec-compression versions 4.1.124.Final and below, and netty-codec versions 4.2.4.Final and below,…
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Medium 6.8
Mobile Security Framework (MobSF) Allows Web Server Resource Exhaustion via ZIP of Death Attack
MobSF is a mobile application security testing tool used. Typically, MobSF is deployed on centralized internal or cloud-based servers that also host other security tools and web applications. Access to the MobSF web interface is often granted to internal secu…
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Medium 6.5
IBM Concert Software denial of service
IBM Concert Software 1.0.0 through 1.0.5 could allow an authenticated user to cause a denial of service due to the expansion of archive files without controlling resource consumption.
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Medium 6.5
PeerTube User Import Authenticated Resource Exhaustion
This vulnerability allows any authenticated user to cause the server to consume very large amounts of disk space when extracting a Zip Bomb. If user import is enabled (which is the default setting), any registered user can upload an archive for importing. The…
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Medium 4.5
IBM PowerVM Hypervisor data manipulation
IBM PowerVM Hypervisor FW1050.00 through FW1050.30 and FW1060.00 through FW1060.20 could allow a local user, under certain Linux processor combability mode configurations, to cause undetected data loss or errors when performing gzip compression using HW accel…
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Medium 6.5
Improper Input Validation in binary-husky/gpt_academic
A vulnerability in the binary-husky/gpt_academic repository, as of commit git 3890467, allows an attacker to crash the server by uploading a specially crafted zip bomb. The server decompresses the uploaded file and attempts to load it into memory, which can l…
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Medium 4.3
compression bomb attack in Apache Seata Server
Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) vulnerability in Apache Seata (incubating). This issue affects Apache Seata (incubating): through <=2.2.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.3.0, which fixes the issue.
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Medium 6.5
Net::IMAP vulnerable to possible DoS by memory exhaustion
Net::IMAP implements Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) client functionality in Ruby. Starting in version 0.3.2 and prior to versions 0.3.8, 0.4.19, and 0.5.6, there is a possibility for denial of service by memory exhaustion in `net-imap`'s response par…
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Medium 6.5
Zipbomb DoS via Missing Slack Import Validation
Mattermost versions 10.1.x <= 10.1.2, 10.0.x <= 10.0.2, 9.11.x <= 9.11.4, 9.5.x <= 9.5.12 fail to limit the file size for slack import file uploads which allows a user to cause a DoS via zip bomb by importing data in a team they are a team admin.
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Medium 4.3
Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) in GitLab
A denial of service (DoS) condition was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 13.2.4 before 16.10.6, 16.11 before 16.11.3, and 17.0 before 17.0.1. By leveraging this vulnerability an attacker could create a DoS condition by sending crafted AP…
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Medium 4.3
Go JOSE vulnerable to Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)
Package jose aims to provide an implementation of the Javascript Object Signing and Encryption set of standards. An attacker could send a JWE containing compressed data that used large amounts of memory and CPU when decompressed by Decrypt or DecryptMulti. Th…
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Medium 5.3
gosaml2 vulnerable to Denial of Service via deflate decompression bomb
gosaml2 is a Pure Go implementation of SAML 2.0. SAML Service Providers using this library for SAML authentication support are likely susceptible to Denial of Service attacks. A bug in this library enables attackers to craft a `deflate`-compressed request whi…
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Medium 6.5
Nomad Client Vulnerable to Decompression Bombs in Artifact Block
HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise 1.2.15 up to 1.3.8, and 1.4.3 jobs using a maliciously compressed artifact stanza source can cause excessive disk usage. Fixed in 1.2.16, 1.3.9, and 1.4.4.
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Medium 4.2
Go-Getter Vulnerable to Decompression Bombs
HashiCorp go-getter up to 1.6.2 and 2.1.1 is vulnerable to decompression bombs. Fixed in 1.7.0 and 2.2.0.
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Medium 5.5
Malformed ZIP file crashes Universal Forwarders and Splunk Enterprise through file monitoring input
In Splunk Enterprise and Universal Forwarder versions in the following table, indexing a specially crafted ZIP file using the file monitoring input can result in a crash of the application. Attempts to restart the application would result in a crash and would…
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Medium 5.9
superagent vulnerable to zip bomb attacks
The HTTP client module superagent is vulnerable to ZIP bomb attacks. In a ZIP bomb attack, the HTTP server replies with a compressed response that becomes several magnitudes larger once uncompressed. If a client does not take special care when processing such…