2026-06-22 20:11CVE-2026-39904VulnCheck
PUBLISHED5.2CWE-770x_open-source

Gophish 0.12.1 Denial of Service via Office Document Upload

Gophish through 0.12.1 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows authenticated users with the User role to exhaust server memory by uploading a crafted Office document as an email template attachment. The ApplyTemplate() function in models/attachment.go processes Office documents as ZIP archives and calls ioutil.ReadAll() on each contained file entry without enforcing size restrictions on uncompressed content, allowing a zip bomb payload to expand to several gigabytes in memory and cause the process to be terminated by the operating system.

Problem type

Affected products

gophish

gophish

<= 0.12.1 - AFFECTED

References

GitHub Security Advisories

GHSA-42jc-v69j-g38f

Gophish through 0.12.1 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows authenticated users...

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-42jc-v69j-g38f

Gophish through 0.12.1 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows authenticated users with the User role to exhaust server memory by uploading a crafted Office document as an email template attachment. The ApplyTemplate() function in models/attachment.go processes Office documents as ZIP archives and calls ioutil.ReadAll() on each contained file entry without enforcing size restrictions on uncompressed content, allowing a zip bomb payload to expand to several gigabytes in memory and cause the process to be terminated by the operating system.

JSON source

https://cveawg.mitre.org/api/cve/CVE-2026-39904
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