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Medium · 4.3 CVE-2026-105747 EUVD-2026-92809GHSA-3cr3-8m4c-fpxwGHSA-f4ch-vxwc-3p2mPYSEC-2026-4194PYSEC-2026-4209

Docling: METS-GBS archive member limit enforced after full member enumeration (memory exhaustion during format detection)

Published Oct 5, 2026 · Updated Oct 6, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Docling simplifies document processing by parsing diverse formats and providing integrations with the generative AI ecosystem. From 2.45.0 until 2.131.0, METS-GBS format detection in docling/datamodel/document.py and the backend in docling/backend/mets_gbs_backend.py call tarfile.TarFile.getmembers() before enforcing the max_member_count limit, causing the full archive member list to be allocated before the limit can stop processing. A small gzip-compressed tar archive with a very large number of empty members can therefore consume memory proportional to the declared member count, including during format detection before the allowed_formats restriction is applied. This issue is a residual weakness in the member-count protection added for CVE-2026-44018. This issue is fixed in 2.131.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
docling-project docling >= 2.45.0, < 2.131.0 —
docling-project docling-slim >= 2.45.0, < 2.131.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI docling >= 2.45.0, < 2.131.0 2.131.0 GHSA-3cr3-8m4c-fpxw
PyPI docling-slim >= 2.92.0, < 2.131.0 2.131.0 GHSA-3cr3-8m4c-fpxw

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