Vulnerability in Perber Leafwiki
CVE-2026-80189
LeafWiki extracts an uploaded ZIP archive without limiting how much data it will write. ZipExtractor.ExtractToDir in internal/importer/zip_extractor.go opens each entry and copies it to the destination with io.Copy, which runs to the end of the decompressed stream, so only the size of the uploaded archive is bounded and the size it expands to is not. The import route that reaches this code requires the Editor or Admin role, and the upload itself is capped at 500 MiB compressed. Because a ZIP entry can compress at a very high ratio, an archive well inside that cap can expand to hundreds of gigabytes as it is written out. The extraction directory defaults to a location under the operating system temporary directory, so the written data consumes the disk backing that path, which on a tmpfs-backed temporary directory is memory. A user holding the Editor role can therefore exhaust the storage the service depends on and keep it from serving, using far more resource than the upload limit alone would permit.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- github.com/perber/leafwiki (product)
- github.com/perber/leafwiki/security/advisories/GHSA-258m-crqp-25xc (vendor-advisory)
- github.com/perber/leafwiki/blob/v0.12.0/internal/importer/zip_extractor.go (technical-description)
- github.com/perber/leafwiki/releases/tag/v0.12.1 (release-notes)
- VulnCheck Advisory: LeafWiki 0.10.0 through 0.12.0 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption via Unbounded ZIP Extraction (third-party-advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2026-80189?
- CVE-2026-80189 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Perber Leafwiki, classified under Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification). CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2026-08-25.
- How severe is CVE-2026-80189?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.