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Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)

CVE-2024-12387

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

A vulnerability in the binary-husky/gpt_academic repository, as of commit git 3890467, allows an attacker to crash the server by uploading a specially crafted zip bomb. The server decompresses the uploaded file and attempts to load it into memory, which can lead to an out-of-memory crash. This issue arises due to improper input validation when handling compressed file uploads.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-409 - Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)

The software does not handle or incorrectly handles a compressed input with a very high compression ratio that produces a large output.

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  • Published