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CVE-2024-0450

Public on 2024-03-19
Modified on 2024-03-28
Description

An issue was found in the CPython `zipfile` module affecting versions 3.12.2, 3.11.8, 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.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
6.2
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 2 - Core python3 2024-04-11 01:07 ALAS2-2024-2515
Amazon Linux 2023 python3.11 2024-04-10 22:17 ALAS2023-2024-588
Amazon Linux 2023 python3.9 2024-04-25 16:40 ALAS2023-2024-605
Amazon Linux 2 - Python3.8 Extra python38 2024-11-08 17:57 ALAS2PYTHON3.8-2024-016

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 6.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD CVSSv3 6.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Red Hat: CVE-2024-0450 Mitre: CVE-2024-0450 FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity