Vulnerability CVE-2024-8088
Published: 2024-08-22

Description:
There is a HIGH severity vulnerability affecting the CPython "zipfile"
module.





When iterating over names of entries in a zip archive (for example, methods
of "zipfile.ZipFile" like "namelist()", "iterdir()", "extractall()", 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.

 References:
https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/GNFCKVI4TCATKQLALJ5SN4L4CSPSMILU/
https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/122906
https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/122905
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/795f2597a4be988e2bb19b69ff9958e981cb894e
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/8c7348939d8a3ecd79d630075f6be1b0c5b41f64
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/dcc5182f27c1500006a1ef78e10613bb45788dea
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