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CVE-2026-119434: silviucpp ezstd · Data Amplification

Affects silviucpp ezstdSource CVE Database V5

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 6.9 Medium : upgrade to 1.2.5 when convenient.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026, 20:33 UTC

CVSS 4.0 base score
6.9Medium
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

Thin evidence

One scorer or none
CVSS scores by source
CNA (EEF)CVSS 4.06.9
Patch
Available – fixed in 1.2.5, e34f4a4f6dc18d990d1cece2d5fceef8e934a195
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 5 Nov 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 5 Nov 2026.

What to do

Upgrade ezstd to 1.2.5; ezstd to e34f4a4f6dc18d990d1cece2d5fceef8e934a195.

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
silviucppezstdAffected
  • >=1.0.5 <1.2.5
Fixed in
  • 1.2.5
ezstdsilviucpp/ezstdAffected
  • ≥ 6730128b1d35eca02a2028671421471ff651f423, < e34f4a4f6dc18d990d1cece2d5fceef8e934a195
Fixed in
  • e34f4a4f6dc18d990d1cece2d5fceef8e934a195
Hexezstdpkg:hex/ezstdOther threatsAffected
  • >=1.0.5 <1.2.5
Fixed in
  • 1.2.5

CPE configurations (1)

  • cpe:2.3:a:silviucpp:ezstd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Description

Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) vulnerability in silviucpp ezstd allows an attacker who supplies a zstd frame to ezstd:decompress_using_ddict/2 to exhaust memory and terminate the Erlang VM via a small frame that declares a very large content size. zstd_nif_decompress_using_ddict in c_src/ezstd_nif.cc reads the frame's declared content size with ZSTD_getFrameContentSize and passes it directly to enif_make_new_binary, without the 1 GiB MAX_BUFFER_SIZE check that ezstd:decompress/1 applies before allocating. A valid 65,550-byte frame of RLE blocks declaring 2 GiB is rejected by ezstd:decompress/1 but is fully allocated and decompressed by the dictionary path. The allocation happens inside a NIF, so when it exceeds the memory available to the VM the operating system kills the whole node rather than the calling process. This issue affects ezstd: from 1.0.5 before 1.2.5.

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