Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere Affecting dask.distributed package, versions <2021.01.0+ds.1-2.1+deb11u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.98% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-DASKDISTRIBUTED-1915557
  • published31 Oct 2021
  • disclosed26 Oct 2021

Introduced: 26 Oct 2021

CVE-2021-42343  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-668  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 dask.distributed to version 2021.01.0+ds.1-2.1+deb11u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream dask.distributed package and not the dask.distributed package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in the Dask distributed package before 2021.10.0 for Python. Single machine Dask clusters started with dask.distributed.LocalCluster or dask.distributed.Client (which defaults to using LocalCluster) would mistakenly configure their respective Dask workers to listen on external interfaces (typically with a randomly selected high port) rather than only on localhost. A Dask cluster created using this method (when running on a machine that has an applicable port exposed) could be used by a sophisticated attacker to achieve remote code execution.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1