CVE-2026-42886

MEDIUM

Audiobookshelf: Memory amplification DoS via oversized compressed details entry in backup upload

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

Audiobookshelf is a self-hosted audiobook and podcast server. Prior to 2.32.2, the POST /api/backups/upload endpoint decompresses the details entry from an uploaded .audiobookshelf ZIP file entirely into memory using zip.entryData(), with no limit on the decompressed size. The upload middleware also has no file size limit. An admin user can upload a crafted ZIP containing a highly compressed details entry that, when decompressed, consumes hundreds of megabytes or gigabytes of memory, crashing the server process via out-of-memory. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.32.2.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 4.9
EPSS 0.0026
EPSS Percentile 17.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-409
Status published
Products (1)
advplyr/audiobookshelf < 2.33.2
Published May 11, 2026
Tracked Since May 12, 2026