What is CVE-2019-13453?

CVE-2019-13453 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Zipios Project, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-07-17.

How severe is CVE-2019-13453?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Zipios Project

CVE-2019-13453

Zipios before 0.1.7 does not properly handle certain malformed zip archives and can go into an infinite loop, causing a denial of service. This is related to zipheadio.h:readUint32() and zipfile.cpp:Zipfile::Zipfile().

Published 2019-07-17 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.020 (80.3th percentile), scored 2026-10-01.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 80th percentile — 80.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.020 · newest: 0.020 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Zipios Project

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-835 — Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop)

References

salvatoresecurity.com/fun-with-fuzzers-how-i-discovered-three-vulnerabilities-p… (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
sourceforge.net/p/zipios/news/2019/07/version-017-cve-/ (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/109282 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00041.html (mailing-list)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-13453?: CVE-2019-13453 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Zipios Project, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-07-17.
How severe is CVE-2019-13453?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.