FKIE_CVE-2026-18929

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-08-18 10:16 - Updated: 2026-08-18 15:16
Severity
6.9 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L
Summary
Carbone is vulnerable to Denial of Service due to lack of protection against zip bombs when processing .docx files. The library uses yazl for zip decompression without validating entry sizes, allowing an attacker to supply a malicious .docx file containing a zip bomb that decompresses to a significantly larger size, causing excessive memory consumption and crashing the application server. The issue was fixed in versions: 3.8.2, 4.26.3 and 5.4.4.  The fix is available across all distribution types.
References
cvd@cert.plhttps://carbone.io/
cvd@cert.plhttps://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/08/CVE-2026-18929
cvd@cert.plhttps://github.com/carboneio/carbone/commit/eb9b4cff992cc1cb1a319d7fc0cbd09160dc214e
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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