GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go
GHSA-2mg2-p7r7-g27f Coder: Zip upload decompression lacks aggregate size limit, enabling denial of service
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-55078
- Ecosystem
- Go
- Packages
- github.com/coder/coder/v2
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-409, CWE-770
- Reviewed
- 2026-07-06
Affected packages
• Go github.com/coder/coder/v2: >= 2.34.0, < 2.34.2 → fixed in 2.34.2
• Go github.com/coder/coder/v2: >= 2.33.0, < 2.33.8 → fixed in 2.33.8
• Go github.com/coder/coder/v2: >= 2.30.0, < 2.32.7 → fixed in 2.32.7
• Go github.com/coder/coder/v2: >= 2.17.0, < 2.29.17 → fixed in 2.29.17
Description
Summary
`POST /api/v2/files` converts zip uploads to tar in memory via `CreateTarFromZip`, which enforced a per-entry size limit but no aggregate limit on total decompressed output, writing to an unbounded in-memory buffer.
> Note: Exploitation requires authenticated file-upload access and the impact is limited to availability (denial of service).
Impact
An authenticated user could upload a zip within the 100 MiB upload limit but containing many highly compressible entries whose decompressed size exhausted memory, crashing `coderd` before any RBAC check. Repeated requests could keep the service unavailable. This is a denial of service; it does not allow data disclosure or code execution.
Patches
The fix adds a metadata preflight check that sums projected entry sizes and a streaming writer that enforces the aggregate limit during decompression.
The fix was backported to all supported release lines:
| Release line | Patched version |
|---|---|
| 2.34 | v2.34.2 |
| 2.33 | v2.33.8 |
| 2.32 | v2.32.7 |
| 2.29 (ESR) | v2.29.17 |
Workarounds
Restrict file-upload permissions to trusted users or place a reverse proxy with request-body size limits in front of `coderd`.
Resources
• Fix: #25877
Credits
Coder would like to thank Anthropic's Security Team (ANT-2026-22438) for independently disclosing this issue!
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