Information Exposure Affecting apache-libcloud package, versions [0.12.3,0.13.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (21st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-APACHELIBCLOUD-40022
  • published13 Apr 2017
  • disclosed7 Jan 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Jan 2014

CVE-2013-6480  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade to version 0.13.3 or greater.

Overview

apache-libcloud is a standard Python library that abstracts away differences among multiple cloud provider APIs.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. Libcloud 0.12.3 through 0.13.2 does not set the scrub_data parameter for the destroy DigitalOcean API, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging a new VM.

CVSS Scores

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