CyberRota Analysis
AI-GeneratedCarbone is susceptible to a Denial of Service attack due to its inadequate handling of zip bombs when processing .docx files, as it fails to validate entry sizes during zip decompression. This vulnerability can lead to excessive memory consumption and application server crashes, impacting availability. Organizations using affected versions should prioritize updating to versions 3.8.2, 4.26.3, or 5.4.4 to mitigate this risk.
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Original NVD 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.