Command Injection Affecting cookiecutter package, versions [,2.1.1)
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
1.02% (85th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-COOKIECUTTER-2414281
- published 2 Jun 2022
- disclosed 2 Mar 2022
- credit Alessio Della Libera of Snyk Research Team
Introduced: 2 Mar 2022
CVE-2022-24065 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade cookiecutter to version 2.1.1 or higher.
Overview
cookiecutter is a command-line utility that creates projects from cookiecutters.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection via hg argument injection. When calling the cookiecutter function from Python code with the checkout parameter, it is passed to the hg checkout command in a way that additional flags can be set. The additional flags can be used to perform a command injection.
PoC
from cookiecutter.main import cookiecutter
checkout = "--config=alias.checkout=!touch ./HELLO"
cookiecutter('some valid hg repository', checkout=checkout)
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CVSS Scores
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