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Audiobookshelf CVE-2026-42886

| EUVD-2026-29209 MEDIUM
Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) (CWE-409)
2026-05-11 GitHub_M
4.9
CVSS 3.1
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CVSS VectorNVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
High
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Lifecycle Timeline

3
Patch available
May 11, 2026 - 21:03 EUVD
Analysis Generated
May 11, 2026 - 20:31 vuln.today
CVE Published
May 11, 2026 - 19:54 nvd
MEDIUM 4.9

DescriptionNVD

Audiobookshelf is a self-hosted audiobook and podcast server. Prior to 2.32.2, the POST /api/backups/upload endpoint decompresses the details entry from an uploaded .audiobookshelf ZIP file entirely into memory using zip.entryData(), with no limit on the decompressed size. The upload middleware also has no file size limit. An admin user can upload a crafted ZIP containing a highly compressed details entry that, when decompressed, consumes hundreds of megabytes or gigabytes of memory, crashing the server process via out-of-memory. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.32.2.

AnalysisAI

Denial-of-service in Audiobookshelf prior to version 2.32.2 allows authenticated admin users to crash the server by uploading a specially crafted ZIP file to the backup upload endpoint. The vulnerability stems from decompressing ZIP entries without size limits, enabling an attacker to craft a highly compressed archive that consumes gigabytes of memory when extracted, exhausting server resources and triggering an out-of-memory condition.

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CVE-2026-42886 vulnerability details – vuln.today

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