CVE-2026-5439 PUBLISHED

Memory Exhaustion via Forged ZIP Metadata

Assigner: certcc
Reserved: 02.04.2026 Published: 09.04.2026 Updated: 09.04.2026

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.

Product Status

Vendor Orthanc
Product DICOM Server
Versions
  • affected from 0 to 1.12.10 (incl.)

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling