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Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting nuitka package, versions [0,0.9)

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Proof of concept
    EPSS 0.05% (17th percentile)
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NVD
7.8 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-NUITKA-2869126
  • published 13 Jun 2022
  • disclosed 13 Jun 2022
  • credit whokilleddb
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Introduced: 13 Jun 2022

CVE-2022-2054 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-77 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Nuitka to version 0.9 or higher.

Overview

Nuitka is a Python compiler with full language support and CPython compatibility

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Command Injection due to insecure usage of the eval() method in the main() function. Exploiting this vulnerability is possible by replacing one of these environment variables - NUITKA_PYTHONPATH, NUITKA_NAMESPACES or NUITKA_PTH_IMPORTED to a malicious payload string.