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Infinite Loop in zziplib v0.13.69 allows remote attackers...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jul 10, 2025

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

Infinite Loop in zziplib v0.13.69 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via the return value "zzip_file_read" in the function "unzzip_cat_file".

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 18, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Last updated Jul 10, 2025

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

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(18th percentile)

Weaknesses

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

The product contains an iteration or loop with an exit condition that cannot be reached, i.e., an infinite loop. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2020-18442

GHSA ID

GHSA-g2w2-2g9v-p7fp

Source code

No known source code

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