Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting astropy package, versions [,5.3.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    0.05% (17th percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications
  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-ASTROPY-6457316
  • published 19 Mar 2024
  • disclosed 19 Mar 2024
  • credit u32i

How to fix?

Upgrade astropy to version 5.3.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Command Injection via the to_dot_graph() function's savelayout argument, which is passed to subprocess.Popen.

PoC

tg.to_dot_graph(savefn="/tmp/1.txt", savelayout="/tmp/script")

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
Expand this section

Snyk

Recommended
7.8 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High