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GHSA-42JC-V69J-G38F

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-06-22 21:31 – Updated: 2026-08-06 19:16

Summary

Gophish contains a denial of service vulnerability

Details

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.

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

7.1 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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        "name": "github.com/gophish/gophish"
      },
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        }
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    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2026-39904"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
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    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2026-08-06T19:16:24Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2026-06-22T21:16:23Z",
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  "id": "GHSA-42jc-v69j-g38f",
  "modified": "2026-08-06T19:16:24Z",
  "published": "2026-06-22T21:31:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-39904"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/ashikmd7/GoPhish-0.12.1/blob/main/Unbounded%20Memory%20Allocation%20in%20Office%20Attachment%20Processing%20Leads%20to%20Server%20DoS/README.md"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/gophish/gophish"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/gophish-denial-of-service-via-office-document-upload"
    }
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  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
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      "type": "CVSS_V3"
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    }
  ],
  "summary": "Gophish contains a denial of service vulnerability"
}

CVE-2026-39904 (GCVE-0-2026-39904)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-22 20:11 – Updated: 2026-07-14 20:00 X_Open Source

Title

Gophish 0.12.1 Denial of Service via Office Document Upload

Summary

Severity

7.1 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

6.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-06-23 14:09 UTC

CWE

CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Assigner

VulnCheck mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/ashikmd7/GoPhish-0.12.1/blob/m…	technical-descriptionexploit
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/gophish-deni…	third-party-advisory

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
gophish	gophish	Affected: 0 , ≤ 0.12.1 (semver) cpe:2.3:a:getgophish:gophish::::::::

Date Public

2026-06-21 00:00

Credits

Ashik Mohamed (ashikmd7)

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