CVE intelligence

CVE-2024-8088

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Aug 22, 2024Sources checked Nov 11, 2026

8.7HIGHCVSS out of 10

What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2024-8088 and is rated High severity with a CVSS score of 8.7. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

What to do next

Remediation and response

Microsoft Security Response Center guidance

Vendor revision: Aug 12, 2026

CBL-Mariner Releases

Vendor-listed releases

3.9.19-5
2.16.1-7
3.12.3-4

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSS1.3%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is CVE-2024-8088?

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.

Source: NVD