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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-ASTROPY-6457316
  • published19 Mar 2024
  • disclosed19 Mar 2024
  • creditu32i

Introduced: 19 Mar 2024

CVE-2023-41334  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-77  (opens in a new tab)

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

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