# CVE-2026-46551: NocoDB: Missing File Size Enforcement in Upload-by-URL Allows Denial of Service via Disk Exhaustion

- Also known as: GHSA-99VC-2JX2-688P
- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2026.04.4
- Published: 2026-06-23 · Updated: 2026-06-24

## Affected

- nocodb: fixed in 2026.04.4
- nocodb (npm): through 0.301.3

## Description

NocoDB is software for building databases as spreadsheets. Prior to 2026.04.4, the uploadViaURL path in the v1/v2 attachment API did not enforce NC_ATTACHMENT_FIELD_SIZE against the remote content-length or against the response stream. An authenticated user (Editor+) could direct the server to download arbitrarily large files, exhausting disk space and causing denial of service. In packages/nocodb/src/services/attachments.service.ts, the HEAD probe read content-length but never compared it to NC_ATTACHMENT_FIELD_SIZE; the subsequent storageAdapter.fileCreateByUrl() performed the download without maxContentLength. This vulnerability is fixed in 2026.04.4.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on nocodb, upgrade to a fixed version (2026.04.4) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb/security/advisories/GHSA-99vc-2jx2-688p

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