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CVE-2026-63133GHSA-C35G-MGC3-95RX

Malcolm has Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Archive Extraction (Inode-Exhaustion DoS)

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 26.07.0
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Malcolm is a network traffic analysis tool suite. Prior to version 26.07.0, `safe-extract.py` extracts uploaded archives with no limit on entry count, directory depth, total entries, or output size. A small malicious archive containing a large number of directory or file entries causes the filebeat processing container to create an unbounded number of filesystem objects, exhausting inodes or filesystem metadata and denying service to the processing pipeline and any service sharing the same mount. Version 26.07.0 fixes the issue.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • cisagov Malcolm

    fixed in 26.07.0

References 4

GitHub · cisagov/Malcolm

cisa.gov

GitHub · cisagov/CSAF