CVE-2026-92000: Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) in cthackers adm-zip
adm-zip versions 0.5.14 through 0.6.0 fail to apply zlib decompression output limits when ZIP entries declare zero uncompressed size. Attackers can craft malicious ZIP archives with highly compressible entries declaring zero size to exhaust memory and cause denial of service.
CVE-2026-92000: Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) in cthackers adm-zip
Description
adm-zip versions 0.5.14 through 0.6.0 fail to apply zlib decompression output limits when ZIP entries declare zero uncompressed size. Attackers can craft malicious ZIP archives with highly compressible entries declaring zero size to exhaust memory and cause denial of service.
CVSS v4.0
Score 8.7high
Affected software
cthackers
adm-zip
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Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- VulnCheck
- Date Reserved
- 2026-09-15T11:12:09.501Z
- Cvss Version
- 4.0
- State
- PUBLISHED
Threat ID: 6aa9b25a55bf5e2cf55e955b
Added to database: 09/15/2026, 21:02:18 UTC
Last updated: 09/15/2026, 21:02:18 UTC
Views: 1
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