CVE-2026-5439

Memory Exhaustion via Forged ZIP Metadata

High · published April 9, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
54.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00759 · 54.8th percentile
Published
2026-04-09T14:44Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 09 APR 14:44Z
    Memory Exhaustion via Forged ZIP Metadata
    cvelistv5