CVE-2026-27460: CWE-409: Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) in TandoorRecipes recipes
Tandoor Recipes is an application for managing recipes, planning meals, and building shopping lists. Prior to 2.6.5, a critical Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability was in the recipe import functionality. This vulnerability allows an authenticated user to crash the server or make a significantly degrade its performance by uploading a large size ZIP file (ZIP Bomb). This vulnerability is fixed in 2.6.5.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
CVE-2026-27460 is a medium severity denial of service vulnerability in Tandoor Recipes prior to version 2.6.5. It arises from improper handling of highly compressed ZIP files during recipe import, allowing an authenticated user to upload a ZIP bomb that crashes or significantly degrades the server. The vulnerability is identified as CWE-409 (Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data). The issue affects versions before 2.6.5 and is resolved by updating to 2.6.5.
Potential Impact
An authenticated user can cause a denial of service by uploading a specially crafted ZIP file that consumes excessive server resources, leading to server crash or severe performance degradation. There is no impact on confidentiality or integrity, only availability is affected.
Mitigation Recommendations
Upgrade Tandoor Recipes to version 2.6.5 or later, where this vulnerability is fixed. Since the vendor has released a fixed version, applying this official update is the recommended remediation. No additional mitigations are specified.
CVE-2026-27460: CWE-409: Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) in TandoorRecipes recipes
Description
Tandoor Recipes is an application for managing recipes, planning meals, and building shopping lists. Prior to 2.6.5, a critical Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability was in the recipe import functionality. This vulnerability allows an authenticated user to crash the server or make a significantly degrade its performance by uploading a large size ZIP file (ZIP Bomb). This vulnerability is fixed in 2.6.5.
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Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
CVE-2026-27460 is a medium severity denial of service vulnerability in Tandoor Recipes prior to version 2.6.5. It arises from improper handling of highly compressed ZIP files during recipe import, allowing an authenticated user to upload a ZIP bomb that crashes or significantly degrades the server. The vulnerability is identified as CWE-409 (Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data). The issue affects versions before 2.6.5 and is resolved by updating to 2.6.5.
Potential Impact
An authenticated user can cause a denial of service by uploading a specially crafted ZIP file that consumes excessive server resources, leading to server crash or severe performance degradation. There is no impact on confidentiality or integrity, only availability is affected.
Mitigation Recommendations
Upgrade Tandoor Recipes to version 2.6.5 or later, where this vulnerability is fixed. Since the vendor has released a fixed version, applying this official update is the recommended remediation. No additional mitigations are specified.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- GitHub_M
- Date Reserved
- 2026-02-19T17:25:31.100Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- null
Threat ID: 69d94d8f1cc7ad14dae0fae0
Added to database: 4/10/2026, 7:20:47 PM
Last enriched: 4/18/2026, 2:35:09 PM
Last updated: 5/26/2026, 1:39:36 PM
Views: 91
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