Fiona affected by CVE-2023-45853 related to MiniZip madler-zlib
Summary
Vulnerability scan of fiona shows CVE-2023-45853. The vulnerability is in GDAL, a dependency of fiona.
Details
Fiona depends on GDAL and GDAL has a port of minizip. MiniZip in zlib through 1.3 has an integer overflow and resultant heap-based buffer overflow in zipOpenNewFileInZip4_64 via a long filename, comment, or extra field. The GDAL project has addressed the CVE in version 3.8.0. See https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2023-November/057881.html.
The Fiona version 1.9.6 wheels on PyPI include GDAL version 3.6.4 and thus could be vulnerable. All of the Fiona 1.10 pre-release wheels in PyPI include GDAL version 3.8.4 and are not vulnerable.
Impact
Systems which use GDAL versions prior to 3.8.0 to open unchecked zip files, whether in combination with fiona or not, could be susceptible to buffer overflows.
Affected software
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| Platform | Package | Vulnerable versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Python (PyPI) | fiona | < 1.10b1 | 1.10b1 |
References
- https://github.com/Toblerity/Fiona/security/advisories/GHSA-q5fm-55c2-v6j9
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-45853
- https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/commit/4aa7ca61c1d2191baf1eea2a97d0dec33a41691f
- https://github.com/madler/zlib/commit/73331a6a0481067628f065ffe87bb1d8f787d10c
- https://github.com/Toblerity/Fiona
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H- Weakness (CWE)
CWE-1395, CWE-190- Platform
- Python (PyPI)
- Package
fiona- Disclosed
- 16.07.2024
- Updated
- 11.10.2026 12:18
Sources and licenses
OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-q5fm-55c2-v6j9 - CC BY 4.0
Vulnerability history: fiona
All published vulnerabilities of this package (Python (PyPI)), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.
- Total entries
- 2
- First → latest
- 07.2024 07.2024
- Without a fix
- 0
- Exploited in attacks
- 0
Severity breakdown
- Critical 1
- High 1
Disclosures per year
- 2024: 2
- 2025: 0
- 2026: 0
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