CVE 7.5 HIGH

Memory Exhaustion via Unbounded Content-Length_CVE-2026-5440

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 the HTTP server due to unbounded use of the `Content-Length` header. The server allocates memory directly based on the attacker supplied header value without enforcing an upper limit. A crafted HTTP request containing an extremely large `Content-Length` value can trigger excessive memory allocation and server termination, even without sending a request body.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-5440
Source certcc
Published Apr 9, 2026 at 14:43
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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