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CVE-2026-89321: CWE-409 Improper handling of highly compressed data (data amplification) in Eclipse Foundation Eclipse OpenVSX

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Medium
VulnerabilityCVE-2026-89321cvecve-2026-89321cwe-409
Published: 09/14/2026 (09/14/2026, 08:13:03 UTC)
Source: CVE Database V5
Vendor/Project: Eclipse Foundation
Product: Eclipse OpenVSX

Description

Publishing limits the compressed size of a VSIX (ovsx.publishing.max-content-size, 512 MB by default) but nothing limited how large an entry becomes when opened. On the first request to /vscode/unpkg/{namespace}/{extension}/{version}/{path}, WebResourceService opened the entry with ZipFile.getInputStream() and passed the decompressed stream to Files.copy(), which ran to the end of the stream without counting bytes written. The result was cached under java.io.tmpdir, and that cache evicted by entry count (150), not by size, so it placed no bound on disk usage. A publisher with access only to their own namespace could therefore upload a small, highly compressible VSIX and cause the server to write far larger files to the temp filesystem — repeating with different files or versions, since a repeat request is served from the cache. Impact observed: the temp filesystem filled; requests for files not already cached returned 500 with No space left on device; a failed extraction left a partial cache file that blocked later attempts at that path; publishing failed with Failed to read extension file. Metadata and already-cached files kept working, and the server did not stop. Triggering the extraction needs no authentication — only the upload does.

CVSS v3.1

Score 4.3medium

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected software

Eclipse Foundation

Eclipse OpenVSX

Affected versions
>=0.20.0 <1.2.0

Technical Details

Data Version
5.2
Assigner Short Name
eclipse
Date Reserved
2026-09-11T13:59:27.803Z
Cvss Version
3.1
State
PUBLISHED

Threat ID: 6aa7b11b55bf5e2cf5c67c5a

Added to database: 09/14/2026, 08:32:27 UTC

Last updated: 09/14/2026, 08:32:27 UTC

Views: 1

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