Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-789 Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value

Description

The product allocates memory based on an untrusted, large size value, but it does not ensure that the size is within expected limits, allowing arbitrary amounts of memory to be allocated.

Associated Reviewed Advisories

Vulnerabilities classified under CWE-789 ordered by modification date.

25 reviewed records
Advisory ID NVD ID Severity PURLs Summary Last Modified
GHSA-754j-98wh-57rf CVE-2026-54893 LOW -

swoosh has email-derived URL path injection in Microsoft Graph endpoint

2026-10-16
GHSA-53v6-4h7p-p4gj CVE-2026-107387 MODERATE

music-metadata: Uncontrolled memory allocation in APEv2 parser

2026-10-08
GHSA-jjpr-9cvf-cq55 CVE-2026-107388 MODERATE

music-metadata: ID3v2 tag size not validated before allocation, causing memory exhaustion DoS

2026-10-08
GHSA-5gfj-9q3v-qfp3 CVE-2026-107389 MODERATE

music-metadata: EBML parser trusts element lengths, allowing memory exhaustion or process abort

2026-10-08
GHSA-x2q3-8cjh-766f CVE-2026-107215 HIGH

Excelize: extractPart allocates attacker-controlled, unbounded and negative-sized buffers from CFB directory entries: remote panic / OOM DoS

2026-10-08
GHSA-cgc7-9qp3-86m3 CVE-2026-105749 MODERATE

Docling: Unbounded table rowspan/colspan in HTML, JATS, ODS and BoxNote backends causes CPU/memory exhaustion

2026-10-07
GHSA-gwg2-r3hj-4w44 CVE-2026-106114 MODERATE

ImageSharp: ICC CLUT parsing allocates from unvalidated channel and grid dimensions

2026-10-07
GHSA-fq3v-74gv-27gm CVE-2026-107223 HIGH

Excelize: Unbounded <col max> attribute is loaded with no MaxColumns check and expanded per-column by flatCols(), so any column mutator hangs or OOMs the process

2026-10-07
GHSA-4v53-57pg-c464 CVE-2026-106452 MODERATE

yawkat LZ4 Java: LZ4BlockInputStream allocates an unvalidated compressed length from the stream header

2026-10-07
GHSA-6cx8-rjf8-pr8g CVE-2026-106453 MODERATE

yawkat LZ4 Java: LZ4DecompressorWithLength allocates the unvalidated size from the 4-byte length header, so a 5-byte input triggers a 1 GiB allocation and OutOfMemoryError

2026-10-07
GHSA-wf3x-273g-mvxv - LOW

devalue: Sparse arrays emitted by uneval cause eager allocation when evaluated

2026-10-01
GHSA-r9w8-h9r3-54w4 - HIGH

devalue: Custom ArrayBuffer revivers can bypass typed-array allocation validation

2026-10-01
GHSA-g4mp-vgx3-xrvm CVE-2026-102820 MODERATE -

pageant: Out-of-bounds read / oversized allocation in `pageant` MemoryMap::read via a malicious Pageant agent (Windows)

2026-09-30
GHSA-gfw4-49f9-cp25 CVE-2026-62370 MODERATE

KubeEdge: Unbounded allocation in viaduct packer enables authenticated remote DoS against CloudHub

2026-09-22
GHSA-8h6x-h86x-75wh CVE-2026-77322 HIGH

SIPGO: DoS via unvalidated WebSocket frame length

2026-09-22
GHSA-pg59-5vwg-4jxq CVE-2026-58268 HIGH

SIPGO: DoS via unvalidated Content-Length in the stream parser

2026-09-22
GHSA-8q6g-vjhf-jp8m CVE-2026-59991 HIGH

psd-tools composite/numpy has uncontrolled memory allocation via crafted PSD geometry

2026-09-22
GHSA-7q85-xj36-vmfc CVE-2026-77301 HIGH

adm-zip: Uncontrolled memory allocation via the declared uncompressed size (DoS)

2026-09-18
GHSA-r9c8-gcjp-xfwh CVE-2026-77410 HIGH

RabbitMQ amqp091-go: Resource Exhaustion (OOM) via Unbounded Body Buffer Allocation

2026-09-17
GHSA-pj96-35fp-cfcc CVE-2026-85715 HIGH

ExifReader: DoS via Crafted HEIC/AVIF iloc Box - Memory Exhaustion

2026-09-17
GHSA-2p48-j3qc-rx9f CVE-2026-88045 HIGH

rclone: S3 multipart declared-length memory exhaustion

2026-09-10
GHSA-m3px-q5gj-j9x7 CVE-2026-10142 HIGH

kafka-python vulnerable to denial of service through an unvalidated protocol frame length

2026-09-01
GHSA-f9qc-qg88-7pq5 CVE-2026-55407 MODERATE -

Buffa Vulnerable to Memory Exhaustion Denial of Service in decode_unknown_field via Unbounded Allocation

2026-08-28
GHSA-xhj3-7xw9-vr34 CVE-2026-77354 HIGH

kin-openapi has uncontrolled resource consumption in openapi3filter deepObject query parameter decoding

2026-08-21
GHSA-qqff-5854-px68 CVE-2026-55149 HIGH

vouch-proxy has an Unbounded Multipart Cookie Allocation DoS

2026-08-20