Malcolm's upload-processing pipeline (scripts/safe...
Moderate severity
Unreviewed
Published
Oct 8, 2026
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Oct 13, 2026
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Oct 8, 2026
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Oct 8, 2026
Last updated
Oct 13, 2026
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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