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CVE-2019-13232 json

Info-ZIP UnZip 6.0 mishandles the overlapping of files inside a ZIP container, leading to denial of service (resource consumption), aka a "…

published 2019-07-04 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-4743

cvss
3.3
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 42%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • unzip Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 6.0-24

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-13232

  • unzip Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 6.0-20ubuntu1.1
  • unzip Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 6.0-21ubuntu1.1
  • unzip Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 6.0-9ubuntu1.6

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-13232

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • unzip RHEL 8 6.0-43.el8
  • unzip RHEL 7 6.0-21.el7
  • unzip RHEL 7.7 EUS 6.0-20.el7_7.1

red hat advisories RHSA-2020:2486RHSA-2020:1787RHSA-2020:1181

  • unzip Alpine 3.11, Alpine 3.10, Alpine 3.9 +1 more 6.0-r6
  • unzip Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +10 more 6.0-r7

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2019-13232

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • unzip Azure Linux 3.0 6.0-20
  • unzip CBL-Mariner 2.0 6.0-19

azure linux advisories AZL-35341AZL-6943

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

  • unzip Arch Linux 6.0-15

arch linux advisories AVG-611

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-13232 updated cvss 4.0

unzip: overlapping of files in ZIP container leads to denial of service

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 unzip Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 unzip
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) unzip 6.0-43.el8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:1787
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) unzip 6.0-21.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) unzip 6.0-21.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:1181
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.7) unzip 6.0-20.el7_7.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:2486
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) unzip 6.0-21.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:1181
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.7) unzip 6.0-20.el7_7.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:2486
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) unzip 6.0-21.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:1181

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.50% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 42% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 3.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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