VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2016-5636

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability25.48%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2016-09-02
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

Integer overflow in the get_data function in zipimport.c in CPython (aka Python) before 2.7.12, 3.x before 3.4.5, and 3.5.x before 3.5.2 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a negative data size value, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-190: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Primary references