Microsoft advisory for CVE-2024-3220
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products4
- azl3 python3 3.12.9-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
- azl3 tensorflow 2.16.1-9 on Azure Linux 3.0
- cbl2 python3 3.9.19-13 on CBL Mariner 2.0
- cbl2 python3 3.9.19-13 on CBL-Mariner 2.0
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2024-3220
- EchelonGraph score
- 2.3 LOW
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
There is a defect in the CPython standard library module “mimetypes” where on Windows the default list of known file locations are writable meaning other users can create invalid files to cause MemoryError to be raised on Python runtime startup or have file extensions be interpreted as the incorrect file type. This defect is caused by the default locations of Linux and macOS platforms (such as “/etc/mime.types”) also being used on Windows, where they are user-writable locations (“C:\etc\mime.types”). To work-around this issue a user can call mimetypes.init() with an empty list (“[]”) on Windows platforms to avoid using the default list of known file locations.
Published by Python Software Foundation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2024-3220, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).