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adawolfa/isdoc: Uncontrolled resource consumption (decompression bomb) when reading untrusted ISDOCX or PDF filesGHSA-xg43-5579-qw6v

MEDIUMFix: adawolfa/isdoc@02a1012

GHSA-xg43-5579-qw6v is a medium-severity (CVSS 6.5) remote code execution vulnerability in adawolfa/isdoc. A fix is available for adawolfa/isdoc — see the affected versions and patch details below.

Published
Updated
Affected
4 pkgs
Patched
3 / 4
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Sep 10, 2026 · OSV.dev, FIRST.org (EPSS)

Real-World Exposure

4 pkgs affected
🐘adawolfa/isdoc🐘adawolfa/isdoc🐘adawolfa/isdoc🐘adawolfa/isdoc

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Description

Impact

adawolfa/isdoc reads ISDOC invoices from ISDOCX (ZIP) archives and from PDF files with embedded ISDOC documents and supplements. Affected versions inflate ZIP entries and read embedded files without validating their uncompressed size, so a small crafted file can amplify into gigabytes:

  • ISDOCX decompression bomb — getFromName() inflates the ISDOC document and binary supplements with no size cap.
  • saveTo() disk-fill — the supplement copy loop writes inflated bytes to disk with no running byte budget, so a bomb can exhaust disk even if the central-directory size is under-reported.
  • PDF embedded files — an embedded file whose declared Length is enormous is read and digested with no upper bound.

Exploitation requires the application to parse an attacker-supplied .isdocx or .pdf (the typical use is generating files or parsing files from trusted vendors, so a user must be induced to process a malicious file). When that happens the process can be driven to exhaust memory or disk, causing denial of service. There is no confidentiality or integrity impact — availability only.

Patches

Fixed in 1.4.3, 1.5.1, 1.6.1 and 2.0.0. The readers now:

  • read the uncompressed size from the ZIP central directory (statName()) and reject entries over a cap before inflating — 256 KB (DocumentSizeLimit) for the ISDOC document, 32 MB (SizeLimit) for supplements;
  • enforce a running byte budget in saveTo() and unlink the partial file on overflow;
  • reject PDF-embedded files whose declared Length exceeds 256 MB before reading or digesting them.

New exceptions ReaderException::zipEntryTooLarge(), SupplementException::supplementTooLarge() and ReaderException::pdfSupplementTooLarge() surface the rejection.

Unsupported versions

Versions before 1.4.0 (the 1.0–1.3 lines) are also affected and will not receive a fix, because they target end-of-life PHP. Users on those lines should upgrade to a maintained release — 1.4.3, 1.5.1, 1.6.1, or 2.0.0.

Workarounds

No code-level workaround exists in affected versions; upgrading is the fix. As mitigation, restrict parsing to trusted input, or enforce an external size / decompression limit (validate ZIP entry sizes, cap process memory) before handing files to the library.

Resources

  • Decompression-bomb fix: commit 935fb2a (backported, released as 1.4.3 / 1.5.1 / 1.6.1) and 02a1012 (master, released as 2.0.0).
  • CWE-409 (Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data), CWE-400 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption).

Affected Packages

4 total 3 fixed
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
🐘Packagistadawolfa/isdoc≥ 1.6.0&&< 1.6.11.6.1composer require adawolfa/isdoc:^1.6.1
🐘Packagistadawolfa/isdoc≥ 1.5.0&&< 1.5.11.5.1composer require adawolfa/isdoc:^1.5.1
🐘Packagistadawolfa/isdoc≥ 1.4.0&&< 1.4.31.4.3composer require adawolfa/isdoc:^1.4.3
🐘Packagistadawolfa/isdocall versionsNo fix

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency

  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for adawolfa/isdoc, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.

  2. Fix

    Update adawolfa/isdoc to 1.6.1 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms GHSA-xg43-5579-qw6v is resolved across your whole dependency graph.

  3. Workarounds

    Stop feeding it untrusted input: reject or quarantine files and payloads from unverified sources until you can upgrade, restrict accepted formats to the ones you actually need, and run the parsing or decoding step in a least-privileged sandbox or short-lived worker so a crash or corrupted read cannot reach the rest of the process.

Frequently Asked Questions

### Impact `adawolfa/isdoc` reads ISDOC invoices from ISDOCX (ZIP) archives and from PDF files with embedded ISDOC documents and supplements. Affected versions inflate ZIP entries and read embedded files **without validating their uncompressed size**, so a small crafted file can amplify into gigabytes: - **ISDOCX decompression bomb** — `getFromName()` inflates the ISDOC document and binary supplements with no size cap. - **`saveTo()` disk-fill** — the supplement copy loop writes inflated bytes to disk with no running byte budget, so a bomb can exhaust disk even if the central-directory size
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