CVE-2026-5439

HIGH

Memory Exhaustion via Forged ZIP Metadata

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0006
EPSS Percentile 17.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-770
Status published
Products (2)
Orthanc/DICOM Server < 1.12.10
orthanc-server/orthanc < 1.12.11
Published Apr 09, 2026
Tracked Since Apr 09, 2026