Improper Input Validation Affecting galaxy-importer package, versions [,0.4.17)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.98% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-GALAXYIMPORTER-5919585
  • published12 Oct 2023
  • disclosed26 Sept 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Sep 2023

CVE-2023-5189  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade galaxy-importer to version 0.4.17 or higher.

Overview

galaxy-importer is a Galaxy content importer

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. An attacker could craft a malicious tarball such that a symlink could be dropped on the disk that results in files being overwritten.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1