VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2024-0450
CVSS score6.2 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.34%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2024-03-19
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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.
Weakness classification
- cna@python.org: CWE-405