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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High 7.5
undici is vulnerable to Unbounded Memory Consumption in undici WebSocket permessage-deflate Decompression
The undici WebSocket client is vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack via unbounded memory consumption during permessage-deflate decompression. When a WebSocket connection negotiates the permessage-deflate extension, the client decompresses incoming compres…
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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…
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High 7.5
Payload size limit bypass via gzip decompression in ContentReader (streaming) allows oversized request bodies in cpp-httplib
cpp-httplib is a C++11 single-file header-only cross platform HTTP/HTTPS library. Prior to 0.35.0, cpp-httplib (httplib.h) does not enforce Server::set_payload_max_length() on the decompressed request body when using HandlerWithContentReader (streaming Conten…
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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 …
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High —
Sliver has Potential Zip Bomb Denial of Service in GzipEncoder
### Summary GzipEncoder does not limit output size when processing compressed data. This allows unauthenticated remote attackers to crash sliver server by sending a http request with highly compressed gzip data (aka zip bomb). ### Details In `util/encoders/gz…
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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…
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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…
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High 7.1
GuardDog Zip Bomb Vulnerability in safe_extract() Allows DoS
GuardDog is a CLI tool to identify malicious PyPI packages. Prior to 2.7.1, GuardDog's safe_extract() function does not validate decompressed file sizes when extracting ZIP archives (wheels, eggs), allowing attackers to cause denial of service through zip bom…
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High 8.7
cpp-httplib vulnerable to a denial of service (DOS) using a zip bomb
cpp-httplib is a C++11 single-file header-only cross platform HTTP/HTTPS library. Prior to version 0.30.1, a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability exists in cpp-httplib due to the unsafe handling of compressed HTTP request bodies (Content-Encoding: gzip, br, …
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High 8.9
urllib3 vulnerable to decompression-bomb safeguard bypass when following HTTP redirects (streaming API)
urllib3 is an HTTP client library for Python. urllib3's streaming API is designed for the efficient handling of large HTTP responses by reading the content in chunks, rather than loading the entire response body into memory at once. urllib3 can perform decodi…
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High 7.5
AIOHTTP's HTTP Parser auto_decompress feature is vulnerable to zip bomb
AIOHTTP is an asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python. Versions 3.13.2 and below allow a zip bomb to be used to execute a DoS against the AIOHTTP server. An attacker may be able to send a compressed request that when decompressed by A…
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High 7.5
Turms AI-Serving module v0.10.0-SNAPSHOT and earlier contains an image decompression bomb denial of service vulnerabili…
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Medium 5.3
In python-jose 3.3.0 (specifically jwe.decrypt), a vulnerability allows an attacker to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS) …
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High 8.9
urllib3 Streaming API improperly handles highly compressed data
urllib3 is a user-friendly HTTP client library for Python. Starting in version 1.0 and prior to 2.6.0, the Streaming API improperly handles highly compressed data. urllib3's streaming API is designed for the efficient handling of large HTTP responses by readi…
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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 6.4.0, 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…
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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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High 8.7
Chall-Manager's scenario decoding process does not check for zip bombs
Chall-Manager is a platform-agnostic system able to start Challenges on Demand of a player. When decoding a scenario (i.e. a zip archive), the size of the decoded content is not checked, potentially leading to zip bombs decompression. Exploitation does not re…
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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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High 7.5CVE-2024-12886 Public exploit
Out-Of-Memory (OOM) Vulnerability in ollama/ollama
An Out-Of-Memory (OOM) vulnerability exists in the `ollama` server version 0.3.14. This vulnerability can be triggered when a malicious API server responds with a gzip bomb HTTP response, leading to the `ollama` server crashing. The vulnerability is present i…
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High 7.5
Denial of Service in h2oai/h2o-3
In h2oai/h2o-3 version 3.46.0.2, a vulnerability exists where uploading and repeatedly parsing a large GZIP file can cause a denial of service. The server becomes unresponsive due to memory exhaustion and a large number of concurrent slow-running jobs. This i…
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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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High 7.5
Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) in github.com/getkin/kin-openapi/openapi3filter
kin-openapi is a Go project for handling OpenAPI files. Prior to 0.131.0, when validating a request with a multipart/form-data schema, if the OpenAPI schema allows it, an attacker can upload a crafted ZIP file (e.g., a ZIP bomb), causing the server to consume…
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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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High 7.5
.NET and Visual Studio Denial of Service Vulnerability
.NET and Visual Studio Denial of Service Vulnerability
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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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High 7.5
XML External Entity (XXE) Vulnerability in scrapy/scrapy
The scrapy/scrapy project is vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) attacks due to the use of lxml.etree.fromstring for parsing untrusted XML data without proper validation. This vulnerability allows attackers to perform denial of service attacks, access loc…
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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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High 7.5
Apollo Router's Compressed Payloads do not respect HTTP Payload Limits
The Apollo Router is a graph router written in Rust to run a federated supergraph that uses Apollo Federation. Versions 0.9.5 until 1.40.2 are subject to a Denial-of-Service (DoS) type vulnerability. When receiving compressed HTTP payloads, affected versions …
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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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High 7.5
Pillow vulnerable to Data Amplification attack.
Pillow before 9.2.0 performs Improper Handling of Highly Compressed GIF Data (Data Amplification).