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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-8088

high Nessus Plugin ID 230728

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

 - There is a HIGH severity vulnerability affecting the CPython zipfile module affecting zipfile.Path.
 Note that the more common API zipfile.ZipFile class is unaffected. When iterating over names of entries in a zip archive (for example, methods of zipfile.Path like namelist(), iterdir(), 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. (CVE-2024-8088)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2024-8088

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-8088

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-8088

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 230728

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2024_8088.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/6/2025

Updated: 10/22/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-8088

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:U/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python2-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python2-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python36, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-nose, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python36, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-sqlalchemy, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python36-devel, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-virtualenv-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pymysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-tkinter, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-docutils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-pygments, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-virtualenv, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3.12, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-bson, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-scipy, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-virtualenv, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-pymongo-gridfs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pymongo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-virtualenv, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-pygments, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-scipy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-bson, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3.9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-docutils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:scipy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-sqlalchemy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-docutils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-virtualenv, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-devel, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3.8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-sqlalchemy, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-sqlalchemy, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-wheel, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3.11, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-virtualenv-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python2-tkinter, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-docs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-pymysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-nose-docs, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pypy3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pymongo-doc, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.10, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pygments, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-pymysql, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-wheel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-docs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-pymongo-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python2-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-nose, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-pymongo, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-docutils, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-sqlalchemy-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-nose, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-wheel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-test, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:scipy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-wheel-wheel, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-wheel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-pymongo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-nose, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-pymysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-sqlalchemy-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-docs, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-distro, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python36-debug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python2-tools, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-distro, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-pygments, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-wheel-wheel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-distro, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-nose-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-pymongo-gridfs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-pymongo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-distro, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python36-rpm-macros, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python36-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python36-debug, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python2-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python36-rpm-macros

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/22/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-8088