Race Condition Affecting betty package, versions [,0.4.0a12)
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- published8 Nov 2024
- disclosed1 Nov 2024
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 1 Nov 2024
CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-362 (opens in a new tab)Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
How to fix?
Upgrade betty to version 0.4.0a12 or higher.
Overview
betty is a Betty is a static ancestry site generator.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition via the _CacheItemLock class's release method due to no longer acquiring a lock before modifying shared data. Attackers could exploit this by triggering concurrent cache operations, leading to unpredictable behavior.
Note:
To mitigate this issue, reintroduce the lock in the release method to ensure proper synchronization of shared resources.