Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-0450

Medium

Published: 19 March 2024

Published
19 March 2024
Modified
15 April 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0015 35.1th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-0450 is a medium-severity Amplification (CWE-405) vulnerability in Fedoraproject (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 6.2 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 35.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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…

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ratio. The fixed versions of CPython makes the zipfile module reject zip archives which overlap entries in the archive.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

Fedoraproject
inferred from references and description; NVD did not file a CPE for this CVE

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-405

Reduces impact of amplification attacks that overwhelm the primary site by allowing operations to shift to an equivalent alternate site.

addresses: CWE-405

Alternate services reduce the impact of amplification attacks that exhaust primary telecommunications resources.

addresses: CWE-405

Amplification attacks that exhaust the primary path are mitigated by the existence of an independent alternate path for command traffic.

addresses: CWE-405

Employs controls that mitigate amplification attacks causing asymmetric resource use.

addresses: CWE-405

Limits amplification effects by controlling how resources are allocated under high-volume or recursive load.

References