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CVE-2025-8291 Detail

Description

The 'zipfile' module would not check the validity of the ZIP64 End of Central Directory (EOCD) Locator record offset value would not be used to locate the ZIP64 EOCD record, instead the ZIP64 EOCD record would be assumed to be the previous record in the ZIP archive. This could be abused to create ZIP archives that are handled differently by the 'zipfile' module compared to other ZIP implementations. Remediation maintains this behavior, but checks that the offset specified in the ZIP64 EOCD Locator record matches the expected value.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/162997bb70e067668c039700141770687bc8f267 Python Software Foundation
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/333d4a6f4967d3ace91492a39ededbcf3faa76a6 Python Software Foundation
https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/139700 Python Software Foundation
https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/139702 Python Software Foundation
https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/QECOPWMTH4VPPJAXAH2BGTA4XADOP62G/ Python Software Foundation

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2025-8291
NVD Published Date:
10/07/2025
NVD Last Modified:
10/07/2025
Source:
Python Software Foundation