CVE-2026-77301 (CVSS 7.5)

Description

adm-zip is a JavaScript library for creating and extracting ZIP archives in Node.js. Prior to 0.6.1, getData() in zipEntry.js trusts an entry's central-directory uncompressed size and allocates output memory before validating that value against the actual compressed data and decompression result. A small crafted ZIP can declare a multi-gigabyte uncompressed size, causing Buffer.alloc and decompression handling to commit excessive resident memory before CRC validation reports an error. Applications that read entries from untrusted archives can therefore be terminated by the operating system or suffer service-wide memory exhaustion. This issue is fixed in version 0.6.1.

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CVSS v3.1 Score

7.5

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploit Prediction

0.0061

Probability of exploitation

0.48%

Percentile rank

EPSS estimates the probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. A higher score means more likely to be exploited.

Weakness Type (CWE)

CWE-789 CWE-789

References

Other References

https://github.com/cthackers/adm-zip/commit/491600683dacb6cb9fe0718a0eeb9cb5eb49afa6 https://github.com/cthackers/adm-zip/releases/tag/v0.6.1 https://github.com/cthackers/adm-zip/security/advisories/GHSA-7q85-xj36-vmfc https://github.com/cthackers/adm-zip/security/advisories/GHSA-7q85-xj36-vmfc

Frequently Asked Questions

What is CVE-2026-77301? +

adm-zip is a JavaScript library for creating and extracting ZIP archives in Node.js. Prior to 0.6.1, getData() in zipEntry.js trusts an entry's central-directory uncompressed size and allocates output memory before validating that value against the actual compressed data and decompression result. A small crafted ZIP can declare a multi-gigabyte uncompressed size, causing Buffer.alloc and decompression handling to commit excessive resident memory before CRC validation reports an error. Applications that read entries from untrusted archives can therefore be terminated by the operating system or suffer service-wide memory exhaustion. This issue is fixed in version 0.6.1. It has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (HIGH).

How severe is CVE-2026-77301? +

CVE-2026-77301 has a CVSS v3.1 score of 7.5 out of 10, rated HIGH. This is a high-severity vulnerability that should be prioritized for patching. The EPSS score is 0.0061, placing it in the 0th percentile for exploitation probability.

How do I check if I'm vulnerable to CVE-2026-77301? +

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