Description
adm-zip before 0.6.1 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to crash the Node.js process via a malformed ZIP file, because inflateAsync in methods/inflater.js lacks a zlib stream error listener. Attackers can supply a ZIP with corrupted DEFLATE data processed by readFileAsync, readAsTextAsync, extractAllToAsync, or getDataAsync, triggering an uncatchable exception that terminates all in-flight requests.
Published: 2026-10-21
Score: 8.7 High
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:45:00 +0000

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Description adm-zip before 0.6.1 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to crash the Node.js process via a malformed ZIP file, because inflateAsync in methods/inflater.js lacks a zlib stream error listener. Attackers can supply a ZIP with corrupted DEFLATE data processed by readFileAsync, readAsTextAsync, extractAllToAsync, or getDataAsync, triggering an uncatchable exception that terminates all in-flight requests.
Title adm-zip before 0.6.1 Denial of Service via inflateAsync Unhandled Error Event
First Time appeared Adm-zip Project
Adm-zip Project adm-zip
Weaknesses CWE-248
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:adm-zip_project:adm-zip:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Adm-zip Project
Adm-zip Project adm-zip
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


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Adm-zip Project Adm-zip
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulnCheck

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-21T00:37:03.910Z

Reserved: 2026-10-20T21:47:43.313Z

Link: CVE-2026-114102

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-10-21T01:17:35.897

Modified: 2026-10-21T01:17:36.020

Link: CVE-2026-114102

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