Vulnerability in Carbone
CVE-2026-18929
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.
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EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.005 (41.4th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 41st percentile — 41.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.005 · change: +0.001
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cert.pl/en/posts/2026/08/CVE-2026-18929 (third-party-advisory)
- carbone.io/ (product)
- github.com/carboneio/carbone/commit/eb9b4cff992cc1cb1a319d7fc0cbd09160dc214e (patch)