Insufficiently Protected Credentials Affecting benchexec package, versions [,2.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-BENCHEXEC-2309910
  • published7 Dec 2021
  • disclosed6 Dec 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Dec 2021

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-255  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade benchexec to version 2.2 or higher.

Overview

benchexec is a framework for reliable benchmarking and resource measurement.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insufficiently Protected Credentials via access to the kernel keyring of the user who launched the BenchExec process from inside a container (this is because, before Linux 5.2, keyrings were not namespace-aware).

CVSS Scores

version 3.1