Unzip
CVE-2019-13232
LOW
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A06:2025 - Insecure Design
ASVS 5.0
V2 - Validation and Business Logic Resource consumption limits
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Impact The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 3.3 (LOW). Attack characteristics: local attack vector, low complexity, low privileges required, no user interaction not required. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A local attacker with access to the system could cause denial of service by exhausting system resources. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
Info-ZIP UnZip 6.0 mishandles the overlapping of files inside a ZIP container, leading to denial of service (resource consumption), aka a "better zip bomb" issue. Rated low severity (CVSS 3.3), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Implement rate limiting, set resource quotas, validate input sizes, use timeouts.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified as Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400), which allows attackers to cause denial of service by exhausting system resources. Info-ZIP UnZip 6.0 mishandles the overlapping of files inside a ZIP container, leading to denial of service (resource consumption), aka a "better zip bomb" issue. Affected products include: Unzip Project Unzip, Debian Debian Linux.
Severity by source
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Primary rating from NVD · only source for this CVE.
CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
Info-ZIP UnZip 6.0 mishandles the overlapping of files inside a ZIP container, leading to denial of service (resource consumption), aka a "better zip bomb" issue.
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Attack Technique
Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
unzip 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read or write and crash) via an extra fiel
Info-ZIP UnZip 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application cra
Info-ZIP UnZip 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via empty bzip2 data in a ZIP ar
Buffer overflow in the charset_to_intern function in unix/unix.c in Info-Zip UnZip 6.10b allows remote attackers to exec
Info-ZIP UnZip 6.0 has a buffer overflow in list.c, when a ZIP archive has a crafted relationship between the compressed
An out-of-bounds read exists in Info-Zip UnZip version 6.10c22 that allows an attacker to perform a denial of service an
An out-of-bounds read exists in Info-Zip UnZip version 6.10c22 that allows an attacker to perform a denial of service an
A heap-based buffer overflow exists in Info-Zip UnZip version <= 6.00 in the processing of password-protected archives t
A heap-based buffer overflow exists in Info-Zip UnZip version 6.10c22 that allows an attacker to perform a denial of ser
A heap-based buffer overflow exists in Info-Zip UnZip version 6.10c22 that allows an attacker to perform a denial of ser
Buffer overflow in the zi_short function in zipinfo.c in Info-Zip UnZip 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
Buffer overflow in the list_files function in list.c in Info-Zip UnZip 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
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