diff --git a/Lib/tarfile.py b/Lib/tarfile.py
index 87500c726ce9a8..149d807ae0a776 100644
--- a/Lib/tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/tarfile.py
@@ -2083,7 +2083,7 @@ def zstopen(cls, name, mode="r", fileobj=None, level=None, options=None,
             if mode == 'r':
                 raise ReadError("not a zstd file") from e
             raise
-        except Exception:
+        except:
             fileobj.close()
             raise
         t._extfileobj = False
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
index 02fd9620bcf33d..d730cfec2ff298 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
@@ -1065,6 +1065,38 @@ class LzmaDetectReadTest(LzmaTest, DetectReadTest):
 class ZstdDetectReadTest(ZstdTest, DetectReadTest):
     pass
 
+
+@support.requires_zstd()
+class ZstdOpenTest(unittest.TestCase):
+    """
+    See: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/150077
+    """
+    def test_zstopen_closes_fileobj_on_base_exception(self):
+        path = os_helper.TESTFN + ".tar.zst"
+        self.addCleanup(os_helper.unlink, path)
+        with tarfile.open(path, "w:zst"):
+            pass
+
+        opened = []
+        real_ZstdFile = zstd.ZstdFile
+
+        def tracking_ZstdFile(*args, **kwargs):
+            fileobj = real_ZstdFile(*args, **kwargs)
+            opened.append(fileobj)
+            return fileobj
+
+        with (
+            unittest.mock.patch("compression.zstd.ZstdFile", tracking_ZstdFile),
+            unittest.mock.patch.object(
+                tarfile.TarFile, "taropen", side_effect=KeyboardInterrupt),
+            self.assertRaises(KeyboardInterrupt),
+        ):
+            tarfile.TarFile.zstopen(path)
+
+        self.assertEqual(len(opened), 1)
+        self.assertTrue(opened[0].closed)
+
+
 class GzipBrokenHeaderCorrectException(GzipTest, unittest.TestCase):
     """
     See: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/107396
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-05-19-18-25-00.gh-issue-150077.zstopen-close.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-05-19-18-25-00.gh-issue-150077.zstopen-close.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..06d20e41e25037
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-05-19-18-25-00.gh-issue-150077.zstopen-close.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Fix ``tarfile.TarFile.zstopen`` to close the underlying zstd file object
+when opening the tar archive is interrupted by a :exc:`BaseException`
+subclass such as :exc:`KeyboardInterrupt`.