CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-5439
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-04-09
- Last modified
- 2026-10-26
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-770
Description
A memory exhaustion vulnerability exists in ZIP archive processing. Orthanc automatically extracts ZIP archives uploaded to certain endpoints and trusts metadata fields describing the uncompressed size of archived files. An attacker can craft a small ZIP archive containing a forged size value, causing the server to allocate extremely large buffers during extraction.
Affected configurations
• orthanc-server orthanc (< 1.12.11)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness
References
- https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/536588 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.machinespirits.de/ Not Applicable
- https://www.orthanc-server.com/ Product