CVE-2024-55587High· 8.8▾ MidnightPoC availablepython-libarchive directory traversal
▾ Midnight zone — Critical, or high with PoC / in-the-wild
impact 48.4 · likelihood 0.4 · exploitation 12
A public proof-of-concept already exists for this vulnerability — see Exploit availability below.
Public exploit / PoC code seen in 1 source. Availability, not in-the-wild use.
Exploit-prediction probability, daily snapshots since Jul 8.
Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via OSV
Last analysed / modified upstream
2.0%
1 GitHub repo
2.0% → 2.1%
python-libarchive through 4.2.1 allows directory traversal (to create files) in extract in zip.py for ZipFile.extractall and ZipFile.extract.
python-libarchive <= 4.2.1Refer to the advisory for the patched release.
Field changes observed since this record was first indexed.