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Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)

CWE-409 · Base · Incomplete

The product does not handle or incorrectly handles a compressed input with a very high compression ratio that produces a large output.

Extended description

An example of data amplification is a "decompression bomb," a small ZIP file that can produce a large amount of data when it is decompressed.

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