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CVE-2026-39904: Gophish contains a denial of service vulnerability

June 22, 2026 (updated August 6, 2026)

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.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-42jc-v69j-g38f
  • github.com/ashikmd7/GoPhish-0.12.1/blob/main/Unbounded%20Memory%20Allocation%20in%20Office%20Attachment%20Processing%20Leads%20to%20Server%20DoS/README.md
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-39904
  • www.vulncheck.com/advisories/gophish-denial-of-service-via-office-document-upload

Code Behaviors & Features

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Affected versions

All versions up to 0.12.1

Solution

Unfortunately, there is no solution available yet.

Impact 6.5 MEDIUM

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

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Weakness

  • CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Source file

go/github.com/gophish/gophish/CVE-2026-39904.yml

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