CVE-2026-18929 - Resource Exhaustion in Carbone
Brief
CVE ID : CVE-2026-18929
Published : Aug. 18, 2026, 10:16 a. m.
- 51 minutes ago
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.
- 2, 4.
- 3 and 5.
- 4. The fix is available across all distribution types.
Severity: 6.9
- MEDIUM
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