CVE 7.5 HIGH

Memory Exhaustion via Forged ZIP Metadata_CVE-2026-5439

7.5 / 10
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-5439
Source certcc
Published Apr 9, 2026 at 14:44
Modified Apr 14, 2026 at 16:34

Affected Product

Vendor Orthanc
Product DICOM Server
Affected Versions Orthanc DICOM Server 0

References

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