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.

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Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Orthanc
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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.
Title Memory Exhaustion via Forged ZIP Metadata
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: certcc

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Updated: 2026-04-09T14:44:37.078Z

Reserved: 2026-04-02T19:22:13.583Z

Link: CVE-2026-5439

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-04-09T15:16:15.443

Modified: 2026-04-09T15:16:15.443

Link: CVE-2026-5439

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Updated: 2026-04-10T08:53:21Z

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