GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go

GHSA-2mg2-p7r7-g27f Coder: Zip upload decompression lacks aggregate size limit, enabling denial of service

MEDIUM Published 2026-07-06 Modified 2026-07-06 Official page ↗
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!

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2026-55078 Coder allows organizations to provision remote development environments via Terraform. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-409 Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) weakness
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness

References