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CVE-2026-18929

Resource Exhaustion in Carbone

6.9 Medium

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.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector: Network
Complexity: Low
Privileges needed: None
User interaction: Active

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality: None
Integrity: None
Availability: High

Exploit likelihood

0.51%Unchanged since Aug 19, 2026

What each source reports

CVE List Score used 6.9

Resource Exhaustion in Carbone

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.

Record: CVE-2026-18929
CVSS 4.0: 6.9 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L
Weakness: CWE-409
Updated: 2026-11-02

EUVDEUVD-2026-60574 6.9

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.

Record: EUVD-2026-60574
CVSS 4.0: 6.9 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L
Updated: 2026-11-02

GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-g3fg-g325-xmh2 6.9

Carbone is vulnerable to Denial of Service due to lack of protection against zip bombs when...

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.

Record: GHSA-g3fg-g325-xmh2
CVSS 4.0: 6.9 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Weakness: CWE-409
Updated: 2026-11-02

NVD 6.9

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.

Record: CVE-2026-18929
CVSS 4.0: 6.9 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Weakness: CWE-409
Updated: 2026-11-02

OSV 6.9

Resource Exhaustion in Carbone

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.

Record: CVE-2026-18929
CVSS 4.0: 6.9 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L
Weakness: CWE-409
Updated: 2026-11-02

Affected products

History

History
Recorded	Changed	Sources
Nov 2, 2026	first indexed	CVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2026-18929 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.9) in Carbone, published August 18, 2026. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.51%, the 43rd percentile. No source names a fixed version.

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