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High severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 10, 2025· Updated Jul 10, 2025

Chall-Manager's scenario decoding process does not check for zip bombs

CVE-2025-53633

Description

Chall-Manager is a platform-agnostic system able to start Challenges on Demand of a player. When decoding a scenario (i.e. a zip archive), the size of the decoded content is not checked, potentially leading to zip bombs decompression. Exploitation does not require authentication nor authorization, so anyone can exploit it. It should nonetheless not be exploitable as it is highly recommended to bury Chall-Manager deep within the infrastructure due to its large capabilities, so no users could reach the system. Patch has been implemented by commit 14042aa and shipped in v0.1.4.

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PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
github.com/ctfer-io/chall-managerGo
< 0.1.40.1.4

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