Uncaught Exception Affecting keep package, versions <0.54.2-r6


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (7th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-KEEP-19203170
  • published22 Aug 2026
  • disclosed14 Sept 2026

Introduced: 22 Aug 2026

NewCVE-2026-55244  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-248  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard keep to version 0.54.2-r6 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream keep package and not the keep package as distributed by Chainguard. See How to fix? for Chainguard relevant fixed versions and status.

ASTEVAL is an evaluator of Python expressions and statements. Prior to 1.0.9, FROM_PY in asteval/astutils.py exposes BaseException, SystemExit, KeyboardInterrupt, and GeneratorExit to expressions evaluated by asteval.Interpreter.eval(), while run() and eval() in asteval/asteval.py catch Exception rather than these non-Exception BaseException subclasses. When an attacker-controlled expression raises one of these classes, on_raise() passes the class to raise_exception(), and the resulting exception bypasses the interpreter's safety handlers and propagates into the calling application. A consuming service that evaluates untrusted expressions can therefore be terminated or have signal and cleanup handling disrupted, causing denial of service. The separately documented read-only open() capability is not part of this vulnerability. This issue is fixed in version 1.0.9.