Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) Affecting adm-zip package, versions <0.6.1
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- published16 Sept 2026
- disclosed15 Sept 2026
- creditDilipkumar Choudhary
Introduced: 15 Sep 2026
NewCVE-2026-92000 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade adm-zip to version 0.6.1 or higher.
Overview
adm-zip is a JavaScript implementation for zip data compression for NodeJS.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) via the inflater process. An attacker can exhaust system memory and disrupt service availability by submitting specially crafted ZIP archives with highly compressible entries that declare a zero uncompressed size.