CVE-2025-5031: Ackites KillWxapkg Zip Bomb Resource Exhaustion

May 21, 2025

A vulnerability was found in Ackites KillWxapkg up to 2.4.1. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component wxapkg File Decompression Handler. The manipulation leads to resource consumption. The attack may be initiated remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.

References

github.com/Ackites/KillWxapkg
github.com/Ackites/KillWxapkg/issues/86
github.com/advisories/GHSA-pqqp-7cp8-vxvf
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5031
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