CVE-2024-0450 Affecting python3 package, versions <3.6.15-150300.10.65.2


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-PYTHON3-7456945
  • published16 Jul 2024
  • disclosed15 Jul 2024

Introduced: 15 Jul 2024

CVE-2024-0450  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 python3 to version 3.6.15-150300.10.65.2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python3 package and not the python3 package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.5 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