Carbone is vulnerable to Denial of Service due to lack of protection against zip bombs when processing .docx files. The library uses yazl for zip decompression without validating entry sizes, allowing an attacker to supply a malicious .docx file containing a zip bomb that decompresses to a significantly larger size, causing excessive memory consumption and crashing the application server.
The issue was fixed in versions: 3.8.2, 4.26.3 and 5.4.4. The fix is available across all distribution types.
Metrics
Affected Vendors & Products
References
History
Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:30:00 +0000
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
|---|---|---|
| Description | Carbone is vulnerable to Denial of Service due to lack of protection against zip bombs when processing .docx files. The library uses yazl for zip decompression without validating entry sizes, allowing an attacker to supply a malicious .docx file containing a zip bomb that decompresses to a significantly larger size, causing excessive memory consumption and crashing the application server. The issue was fixed in versions: 3.8.2, 4.26.3 and 5.4.4. The fix is available across all distribution types. | |
| Title | Resource Exhaustion in Carbone | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-409 | |
| References |
| |
| Metrics |
cvssV4_0
|
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: CERT-PL
Published:
Updated: 2026-08-18T09:11:38.105Z
Reserved: 2026-08-05T10:48:31.029Z
Link: CVE-2026-18929
No data.
Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-18T10:16:46.023
Modified: 2026-08-18T10:16:46.023
Link: CVE-2026-18929
No data.
OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-08-18T10:30:10Z