CVE-2024-0450

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.

How to fix CVE-2024-0450

To remediate CVE-2024-0450, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

—upgrade to 3.10.14-r0 or later
—upgrade to 3.8.19 or later
—upgrade to 3.8.19 or later
—upgrade to 3.8.19 or later
—upgrade to 7.3.5+dfsg-2+deb11u3 or later
—no fix listed
—upgrade to 2.7.16-2+deb10u4 or later
—upgrade to 3.11.2-6+deb12u2 or later
—upgrade to 3.9.2-1+deb11u2 or later

Is CVE-2024-0450 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (9)

from 0, < 3.10.14-r0
from 0, < 3.8.19, >= 3.9.0, < 3.9.19, >= 3.10.0, < 3.10.14, >= 3.11.0, < 3.11.8, >= 3.12.0, < 3.12.2
from 0, < 3.8.19, >= 3.9.0, < 3.9.19, >= 3.10.0, < 3.10.14, >= 3.11.0, < 3.11.8, >= 3.12.0, < 3.12.2
from 0, < 3.8.19, >= 3.9.0, < 3.9.19, >= 3.10.0, < 3.10.14, >= 3.11.0, < 3.11.8, >= 3.12.0, < 3.12.2
from 0, < 7.3.5+dfsg-2+deb11u3
from 0
from 0, < 2.7.16-2+deb10u4
from 0, < 3.11.2-6+deb12u2
from 0, < 3.9.2-1+deb11u2

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM6.2	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H