Improper Certificate Validation Affecting localstack package, versions [0,3.0.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (40th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-LOCALSTACK-6068112
  • published17 Nov 2023
  • disclosed16 Nov 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Nov 2023

CVE-2023-48054  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-295  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade localstack to version 3.0.0 or higher.

Overview

localstack is an An easy-to-use test/mocking framework for developing Cloud applications

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Certificate Validation in cluster.py file. An attacker can eavesdrop on communications between the host and server by performing a man-in-the-middle attack.

Workaround

Set GET request verify=True , it will do SSL certificate validation.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1