CVE-2024-5569

Publication date 9 July 2024

Last updated 30 May 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

A Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability exists in the jaraco/zipp library, affecting all versions prior to 3.19.1. The vulnerability is triggered when processing a specially crafted zip file that leads to an infinite loop. This issue also impacts the zipfile module of CPython, as features from the third-party zipp library are later merged into CPython, and the affected code is identical in both projects. The infinite loop can be initiated through the use of functions affecting the `Path` module in both zipp and zipfile, such as `joinpath`, the overloaded division operator, and `iterdir`. Although the infinite loop is not resource exhaustive, it prevents the application from responding. The vulnerability was addressed in version 3.19.1 of jaraco/zipp.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
python-zipp	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 1.0.0-6ubuntu0.1
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 1.0.0-3ubuntu0.1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1.0.0-1ubuntu0.1

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
python-zipp	Upstream: fd604bd

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.2 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-6906-1
python-zipp vulnerability
24 July 2024