Improper Authentication Affecting dirac package, versions [8.0.0,8.0.37) [8.1.0a1,9.0.0a22)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.09% (39th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-DIRAC-6241744
  • published 11 Feb 2024
  • disclosed 8 Feb 2024
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade DIRAC to version 8.0.37, 9.0.0a22 or higher.

Overview

DIRAC is an interware, meaning a software framework for distributed computing.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Authentication due to the improper validation of permissions on cached tokens in TokenManager. A user can obtain a token from the cache, that was requested by another user or agent.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
8.8 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

7.5 high