CVE-2024-0450

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 36
Deferred
Published: 19 Mar 2024, 15:12
Last modified:03 Nov 2025, 21:50

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
25/100
CVSS Score
6.2 MEDIUM
v3.1 (cve.org)
EPSS Score
0.15% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

19 Mar 2024, 15:12
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
03 Nov 2025, 21:50
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 6.2CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.15%• Percentile: 36%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-405•Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification)

    The product does not properly control situations in which an adversary can cause the product to consume or produce excessive resources without requiring the adversary to invest equivalent work or otherwise prove authorization, i.e., the adversary's influence is "asymmetric."

Affected Systems

  • python software foundation•cpython

    < 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 | ≥ 3.13.0a1, < 3.13.0a3

References (18)