# CVE-2026-44722: pyzipper: Encryption bypass for small files encrypted with pyzipper

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-3044, GHSA-CRQM-M339-7M2P
- Severity: CVSS 6.2 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.4.0
- Published: 2026-07-17 · Updated: 2026-07-17

## Affected

- danifus pyzipper: fixed in 0.4.0
- pyzipper (PyPI): fixed in 0.4.0

## Description

pyzipper is a replacement for Python's zipfile that can read and write AES encrypted zip files. Prior to 0.4.0, a Python operator precedence bug in pyzipper/zipfile_aes.py caused the AE-2 format to never be automatically selected during encryption, causing encrypted entries to be written in AE-1 format and exposing the plaintext CRC32 checksum in the ZIP header and, for unseekable zip archives, in the datadescripter section, allowing an attacker who possesses the archive to brute-force candidate plaintexts for small or low-entropy files by comparing CRC32 values. This issue is fixed in version 0.4.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on danifus pyzipper, pyzipper, upgrade to a fixed version (0.4.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/danifus/pyzipper/security/advisories/GHSA-crqm-m339-7m2p
- https://github.com/danifus/pyzipper/commit/93ce88e7dfd1635443197dab3fb8d477cff579ae
- https://github.com/danifus/pyzipper/releases/tag/v0.4.0

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