CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-106070

LowCVSS 3.7
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.37%

31th percentile - higher than 31% of all known CVEs

Summary

A flaw in the Node.js zlib.ZipFile API can cause it to return bytes that do not belong to the requested entry after local and central header validation fails. When zipEntry.modified is read on an archive whose local header does not match its central directory, the validation error is caught but the parsed local header is left cached without a content offset — a later content read returns attacker-controlled bytes, and CRC-32 verification still passes. A Node.js-based scanner can therefore approve different content from what another ZIP implementation extracts from the same archive.

Risk Assessment

Security tools or validation pipelines based on Node.js may accept a malicious ZIP archive that other implementations read differently. This enables bypassing scanning and delivering dangerous content.

Recommendation

Update Node.js to a version containing the fix for this flaw. Until patched, do not rely solely on Node.js-based ZIP scanners to validate untrusted archives.

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Original NVD description (English source)

A flaw in the Node.js `zlib.ZipFile` API can cause it to return bytes that do not belong to the requested entry after the local and central header validation fails. When `zipEntry.modified` is read on an archive whose local header does not match its central directory, either directly or while compacting the archive, the validation error is caught but the parsed local header is left cached without a content offset. A later content read then returns attacker-controlled bytes from the start of the file instead of rejecting the archive, and CRC-32 verification still passes because the attacker controls the central directory CRC. A Node.js-based scanner can therefore approve different content from what another ZIP implementation extracts from the same archive. This vulnerability affects Node.js **26.x**.

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