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CVE-2026-15310BIT-LIBPYTHON-2026-15310BIT-PYTHON-2026-15310BIT-PYTHON-MIN-2026-15310PSF-2026-39

zipfile: bzip2/LZMA/Zstandard members decompress without a max_length bound, defeating chunked-read memory limits

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 3.10.22, 3.11.17, 3.12.15, 3.13.16, 3.14.8, and 1 more
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

When decompressing crafted zip files using the bzip/LZMA/Zstandard compressions, Python could use an attacker-controlled size to pre-allocate memory, possibly resulting in memory exhaustion.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Python Software Foundation CPython

    fixed in 3.10.22; From 3.11.0 · fixed in 3.11.17; From 3.12.0 · fixed in 3.12.15; From 3.13.0 · fixed in 3.13.16; From 3.14.0 · fixed in 3.14.8; From 3.15.0a1 · fixed in 3.15.0rc2

  • libpythonBitnami

    fixed in 3.10.22; From 3.11.0 · fixed in 3.11.17; From 3.12.0 · fixed in 3.12.15; From 3.13.0 · fixed in 3.13.16; From 3.14.0 · fixed in 3.14.8

  • pythonBitnami

    fixed in 3.10.22; From 3.11.0 · fixed in 3.11.17; From 3.12.0 · fixed in 3.12.15; From 3.13.0 · fixed in 3.13.16; From 3.14.0 · fixed in 3.14.8

  • python-minBitnami

    fixed in 3.10.22; From 3.11.0 · fixed in 3.11.17; From 3.12.0 · fixed in 3.12.15; From 3.13.0 · fixed in 3.13.16; From 3.14.0 · fixed in 3.14.8

References 13

GitHub · python/cpython

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