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
203 results · Feed
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Medium 5.9
ASP.NET Core Denial of Service Vulnerability
Improper handling of highly compressed data (data amplification) in ASP.NET Core allows an unauthorized attacker to deny service over a network.
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High 7.5
Incomplete fix for CVE-2026-75936 memory-amplification denial of service in Amazon ion-java
Improper handling of highly compressed data in Amazon ion-java before 1.12.1 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted compressed Ion document that expands to an arbitrarily large size upon decompression due to insufficient cover…
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High 7.5
parsedmarc < 11.0.1 Zip Bomb DoS via Compressed Email Attachments
parsedmarc before 11.0.1 decompresses gzip and ZIP attachments in a single unbounded read with no limit on decompressed output size. Because parsedmarc automatically processes incoming DMARC report emails without user interaction, an unauthenticated remote at…
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High 7.5
HTTPX2: Streaming response decompression does not bound peak memory (decompression amplification)
HTTPX2 is a next generation HTTP client for Python. Prior to 2.12.0, the HTTPX2 content decoders in src/httpx2/httpx2/_decoders.py fully inflate each gzip, deflate, br, or zstd network chunk before iter_bytes() or aiter_bytes() yields bounded pieces to the ap…
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Medium 4.9
Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data in APM Server Leading to Persistent Denial of Service
Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (CWE-409) in APM Server can lead to a persistent denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An authenticated user with write access to source map content could store specially crafted, highly compressed…
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Medium 6.5
Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data in Kibana Leading to Denial of Service
Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (CWE-409) in Kibana can lead to a denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An authenticated user holding Streams management privileges could supply specially crafted content that expands to a far larg…
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Medium 5.9
MySQL2: Unbounded zlib inflate in compressed MySQL protocol handler allows decompression-bomb DoS
## Vulnerability Details **File**: `lib/compressed_protocol.js` **Line**: 43 (`zlib.inflate(body, (err, data) => { ... })` inside `handleCompressedPacket`) ### Root Cause When a connection is created with `compress: true` (and the server advertises `CLIENT_CO…
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Medium 6.5
pdfme pdf-lib before 5.5.10 Denial of Service via Decompression Bomb
pdfme pdf-lib versions before 5.5.10 contain an unbounded buffer growth vulnerability in the DecodeStream.ensureBuffer() method that allows attackers to cause denial of service by supplying a crafted PDF with a FlateDecode stream containing a decompression bo…
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Medium 5.5
Authenticated Remote Denial of Service via Unbounded zlib Decompression in massStoreRun
CodeChecker's massStoreRun processing path performs one-shot decompression of attacker-controlled, Base64-encoded zlib data without enforcing a maximum decompressed size. An authenticated user with permission to store analysis runs can submit a highly compres…
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Medium 6.5
Unbounded decompression in UnZipTransformer enables zip-bomb DoS
The UnZipTransformer does not limit decompressed entry size or entry count when processing archives. Consequently, an attacker can send a zip archive that can exhaust JVM heap memory, causing a denial-of-service outage. Spring Integration 7.1.0 Spring Integra…
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High 8.2
Http4s: HTTP/2 Denial of Service with Ember Backend
Http4s is a Scala interface for HTTP services. Prior to 0.23.35 and 1.0.0-M47, an unauthenticated HTTP/2 peer can cause an out-of-memory denial of service in the Ember backend with HTTP/2 enabled. The Hpack wrapper in ember-core/shared/src/main/scala/org/http…
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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…
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High 7.5
exceljs through 4.4.0 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption via Unbounded xlsx Decompression
exceljs through 4.4.0 decompresses all entries from supplied xlsx archives into memory without limits on entry size, total size, or compression ratio. Attackers can upload highly compressed workbooks that expand to gigabytes in memory, exhausting available re…
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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…
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Low 3.1
Tanium addressed a compression bomb vulnerability in Findings.
Tanium addressed a compression bomb vulnerability in Findings.
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Low 3.1
Tanium addressed a compression bomb vulnerability in Threat Response.
Tanium addressed a compression bomb vulnerability in Threat Response.
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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…
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High 7.5
Memory-amplification denial of service via GZIP decompression bomb in Amazon ion-java
Improper handling of highly compressed data in the GZIP auto-decompression handler in Amazon ion-java before 1.12.0 might allow remote actors to cause a denial of service via a crafted compressed Ion document that expands to an arbitrarily large size upon dec…
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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 …
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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…
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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 …
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Medium 6.5
In JetBrains YouTrack before 2026.2.18177 doS attack was possible via a decompression bomb in the import endpoint
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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
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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…
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High 7.5
ffuf denial of service (OOM) via HTTP response decompression bomb
ffuf is a fast web fuzzer written in Go. Prior to 2.2.0, ffuf allows a malicious target server to cause an out-of-memory denial of service because the response size guard in pkg/runner/simple.go checks only the compressed Content-Length while io.ReadAll reads…
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High 8.8
Apache NiFi: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption through Decompression of HTTP Requests
Apache NiFi 1.5.0 through 2.10.0 support gzip-encoded HTTP requests for the application REST API using a Jersey encoding filter. The framework enforced a configurable maximum request size on the compressed payload rather than the decompressed output, allowing…
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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, …
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High 7.5
PhpSpreadsheet: Gnumeric reader unbounded gzip expansion causes memory exhaustion
PhpSpreadsheet is a pure PHP library for reading and writing spreadsheet files. In versions 4.0.0 through 5.8.0, 3.3.0 through 3.10.6, 2.2.0 through 2.4.6, 2.0.0 through 2.1.17, and all releases up to and including 1.30.5, the Gnumeric reader reads attacker-s…
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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…
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High 7.5
Apache Thrift: Ruby THeaderTransport ZLIB Decompression Bomb
Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) vulnerability in Apache Thrift Ruby bindings. This issue affects Apache Thrift: before 0.24.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 0.24.0, which fixes the issue.
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High 8.7
Apache Thrift, Apache Thrift, Apache Thrift, Apache Thrift, Apache Thrift, Apache Thrift: TZlibTransport Decompression Size Limit
Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) vulnerability in Apache Thrift C++, Java, Python, Go, D, C/GLib bindings. This issue affects Apache Thrift: before 0.24.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 0.24.0, which fixes the iss…
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High 7.5
Apache Thrift: Unbounded Zlib Decompression in Python THeaderTransport
Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) vulnerability in Apache Thrift Python bindings. This issue affects Apache Thrift: before 0.24.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 0.24.0, which fixes the issue.
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High 8.2
CrowdSec LAPI: Denial of Service via Unbounded Gzip Decompression
CrowdSec offers crowdsourced protection against malicious IPs. From 1.7.0 until 1.7.8, the LAPI router used gin-contrib/gzip with DefaultDecompressHandle globally in pkg/apiserver/controllers/controller.go, causing /v1/watchers and /v1/watchers/login to decom…
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High 8.7
Centrifugo: Decompression bomb DoS via permessage-deflate in unidirectional WebSocket transport
Centrifugo is an open-source scalable real-time messaging server. Prior to 6.8.4, Centrifugo unidirectional WebSocket transport with uni_websocket.compression enabled enforced uni_websocket.message_size_limit against compressed wire-frame length in internal/w…
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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…
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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…
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High 7.5
tornado AsyncHTTPClient accumulates decompressed chunks without size limit (gzip bomb)
Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. Prior to 6.5.6, Tornado gzip decompression routines processed limited-size chunks but did not enforce an overall limit on accumulated decompressed chunks, allowing a malicious server acces…
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High 7.5
Soupwebsocketextensiondeflate: libsoup: libsoup: websocket permessage-deflate unbounded decompression remote denial of service
A flaw was found in libsoup's WebSocket implementation when using the permessage-deflate extension. The extension's decompression loop (inflate()) processes data in chunks without enforcing an upper boundary limit on the output buffer size. While libsoup limi…
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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 …
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High 8.3
HedgeDoc: Denial-of-service via YAML alias expansion in note frontmatter
HedgeDoc is an open source, real-time, collaborative, markdown notes application. Prior to version 1.11.0, HedgeDoc was vulnerable to a YAML alias bomb due to unsafe processing of the note frontmatter. HedgeDoc parsed frontmatter with js-yaml.load (js-yaml v3…