CVE-2024-3220
Default mimetype known files writeable on Windows
Vexday Risk Score
8Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 2.3EPSS 0.5%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch referenciado
Lifecycle
14 Feb 2025Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
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.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
Python Software Foundation · CPythonWant to know if your infrastructure is exposed to this?
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