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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2025-53633 json

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

published 2025-07-10 15 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-r7fm-3pqm-ww5w , GO-2025-3810 , EUVD-2025-21056

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 44%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/ctfer-io/chall-manager 0.1.4
  • ctfer-io chall-manager 0.1.4
  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.0.20250730T213748-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:15405-1

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
15 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.53% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 44% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 8.7 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 4.0 8.7 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/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 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/ctfer-io/chall-manager
<0.1.4
0.1.4

Affected products

  • ctfer-io chall-manager

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-405 Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification)
  • CWE-409 Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)

References

Sources

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