Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting dataclasses-avroschema package, versions [,0.70.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.38% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-DATACLASSESAVROSCHEMA-21693584
  • published24 Oct 2026
  • disclosed13 Oct 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-108377  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade dataclasses-avroschema to version 0.70.6 or higher.

Overview

dataclasses-avroschema is a Generate Avro Schemas from Python classes. Serialize/Deserialize python instances with avro schemas

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Injection through the render_metaclass process. An attacker can execute arbitrary code by crafting a malicious Avro record name that is inserted into the Meta.schema_name field of generated Python source, which is then executed when the generated module is imported.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1