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CVE-2024-0450

Published: Mar 19, 2024

Modified: Nov 3, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

6.2

MEDIUM

Description

An issue was found in the CPython `zipfile` module affecting versions 3.12.1, 3.11.7, 3.10.13, 3.9.18, and 3.8.18 and prior. The zipfile module is vulnerable to “quoted-overlap” zip-bombs which exploit the zip format to create a zip-bomb with a high compression ratio. The fixed versions of CPython makes the zipfile module reject zip archives which overlap entries in the archive.

VendorProductVersions

Python Software Foundation

CPython

affected
0 - < 3.8.19
affected
3.9.0 - < 3.9.19
affected
3.10.0 - < 3.10.14
affected
3.11.0 - < 3.11.8
affected
3.12.0 - < 3.12.2

+1 more versions

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-405

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

References

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