CVE-2026-5439
Full vulnerability record from the local CVENow database.
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.
Severity
HIGH
CVSS score
7.5
(v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Analyzed
Source identifier
Published
2026-04-09 15:16:15.443000
Last modified
2026-10-26 21:10:00.170000
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"published": "2026-04-09T15:16:15.443",
"lastModified": "2026-10-26T21:10:00.170",
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"source": "[email protected]",
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