Improper Neutralization of Directives in Dynamically Evaluated Code ('Eval Injection') Affecting mindsdb package, versions [23.11.4.4a6, 24.7.4.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.05% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-MINDSDB-7945503
  • published 13 Sep 2024
  • disclosed 12 Sep 2024
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade MindsDB to version 24.7.4.1 or higher.

Overview

MindsDB is a MindsDB server, provides server capabilities to mindsdb native python library

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Neutralization of Directives in Dynamically Evaluated Code ('Eval Injection') through the eval function inside the _dispatch_update function of the mindsdb/integrations/libs/vectordatabase_handler.py file. An attacker can execute arbitrary code on the server by sending a specially crafted 'UPDATE' query that includes malicious Python code.

CVSS Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
8.7 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Attack Requirements (AT)
    None
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Confidentiality (VC)
    High
  • Integrity (VI)
    High
  • Availability (VA)
    High
  • Confidentiality (SC)
    None
  • Integrity (SI)
    None
  • Availability (SA)
    None