Multiple Interpretations of UI Input Affecting platform-python package, versions <0:3.6.8-62.el8_10


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-PLATFORMPYTHON-6681491
  • published27 Apr 2024
  • disclosed19 Mar 2024

Introduced: 19 Mar 2024

CVE-2024-0450  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-450  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 platform-python to version 0:3.6.8-62.el8_10 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:3347.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream platform-python package and not the platform-python package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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 Scores

version 3.1