VulnerabilityDeferred

CVE-2026-18929

Carbone is vulnerable to Denial of Service due to lack of protection against zip bombs when processing .docx files.

MEDIUM 6.9EPSS 0.43%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.43%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

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.

CVSS 4.0: 6.9 MEDIUMCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
EPSS: 0.43% probability · 37th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-409
Source: cvd@cert.pl

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.