Insecure Defaults Affecting khoros package, versions [,3.5.0)


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0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-KHOROS-1090199
  • published1 Apr 2021
  • disclosed1 Apr 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Apr 2021

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-453  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade khoros to version 3.5.0 or higher.

Overview

khoros is an Useful tools and utilities to assist in managing a Khoros Community (formerly Lithium) environment.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insecure Defaults. An issue exists where the default value for the shell parameter to be False within py:func:khoros.utils.core_utils.run_cmd function. This is considered dangerous if user input flows into the run_cmd function.

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version 3.1