01 Record
CVE-2026-63133
Malcolm has Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Archive Extraction (Inode-Exhaustion DoS)
HighPUBLISHEDCNA: GitHub_M
CNA base score7.1 CVSS v4.0CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
02 Description
Malcolm has Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Archive Extraction (Inode-Exhaustion DoS)
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Public exploit code exists. CISA's assessment records a public proof of concept. That is not a report of exploitation in the wild.
- SSVC decision
- ExploitationpocPublic proof-of-concept exploit code exists. Not a report of exploitation in the wild.
- AutomatablenoAt least one step from reconnaissance to exploitation cannot be reliably automated.
- Technical ImpactpartialSuccessful exploitation gives limited control of the vulnerable component.
- EPSS probability
- 0.54% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 45.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.1 (CVSS v4.0), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- 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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- NVD analysis status
- Deferred. NVD last modified this record on 2026-10-24.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2026-08-11 20:26Z2 MO AGO
- Last updated
- 2026-10-02 20:15Z26 DAYS AGO
- Reserved
- 2026-07-15
- Assigning CNA
- GitHub_M
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- High (CVSS 7.1)
- CNA CVSS vector
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-770Allocation of Resources Without Limits or ThrottlingBase
- Data version
- 5.2
- Document digest
- 752f7af55ba8e4071e7175aaf732c3dde0ab0dcf09712aea292ff9361dc657da
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- github.comhttps://github.com/cisagov/Malcolm/security/advisories/GHSA-c35g-mgc3-95rx
- github.comhttps://github.com/cisagov/Malcolm/releases/tag/v26.07.0
- www.cisa.govhttps://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-26-230-01
- github.comhttps://github.com/cisagov/CSAF/blob/develop/csaf_files/OT/white/2026/icsa-26-230-01.json
07 Remediation
Malcolm version 26.07.0 addresses these issues. For more information, see https://github.com/cisagov/Malcolm/pull/1043