CVE-2024-8088

medium

Published 2024-09-03 · Modified 2024-08-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

There is a HIGH severity vulnerability affecting the CPython "zipfile" module affecting "zipfile.Path". Note that the more common API "zipfile.ZipFile" class is unaffected. When iterating over names of entries in a zip archive (for example, methods of "zipfile.Path" like "namelist()", "iterdir()", etc) the process can be put into an infinite loop with a maliciously crafted zip archive. This defect applies when reading only metadata or extracting the contents of the zip archive. Programs that are not handling user-controlled zip archives are not affected.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
rhel	9	fixed
rocky	8	fixed
sles		affected
rocky	9	fixed
debian	bullseye	fixed	`0`
debian	forky	fixed	`7.3.18+dfsg-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`7.3.18+dfsg-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`7.3.18+dfsg-1`
debian	bookworm	fixed	`3.11.2-6+deb12u3`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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