Malcolm's upload-processing pipeline (scripts/safe-extract.py) enforces entry-count, nesting-depth, and total-uncompressed-byte limits when extracting container archives (zip/tar/rar/7z via libarchive), but those limits are not applied when the uploaded file is a single-stream compressed format (.gz, .bz2, .xz, .lzma, .lz) that isn't a .tar.*-style archive. Any authenticated user permitted to upload PCAP/log files can upload a small, highly compressible file (e.g. a gzip bomb) that decompresses to an effectively unbounded size on disk, exhausting the shared Docker volume used by OpenSearch, Logstash, Arkime, and Zeek, and disrupting the platform for all users.
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Information
Published : 2026-10-08 18:17
Updated : 2026-10-13 17:17
NVD link : CVE-2026-107335
Mitre link : CVE-2026-107335
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-107335
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Products Affected
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CWE
CWE-409
Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)
