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CVE-2026-5439

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2026-04-09 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

A memory exhaustion vulnerability exists in ZIP archive processing. Orthanc automatically extracts ZIP archives uploaded to certain endpoints and trusts metadata fields describing the uncompressed size of archived files. An attacker can craft a small ZIP archive containing a forged size value, causing the server to allocate extremely large buffers during extraction.

Affected Platforms

Orthanc-Server Orthanc

Weakness Type

CWE-770

References