Advisories

OpenDocMan 2.4.0 through 2.10.0 Decompression Bomb DoS via Upload Text Extraction

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severity
medium
date
Affecting
  • OpenDocMan >= 2.4.0, <= 2.10.0

CWE
  • CWE-409 Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)
CVSS
5.3
CVSS V4 Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Credit
HaiND from the Post and Telecommunication Institute of Technology
Description
OpenDocMan 2.4.0 through 2.10.0 contains a decompression bomb vulnerability that allows authenticated users to exhaust PHP memory by uploading crafted office documents. Attackers can upload a small ODT, DOCX, or XLSX file whose XML entries decompress to hundreds of megabytes, crashing PHP workers and degrading availability.

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