Race Condition Affecting paramiko package, versions [,2.10.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.36% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PARAMIKO-2429583
  • published18 Mar 2022
  • disclosed18 Mar 2022
  • creditJan Schejbal, Jeremy Katz

Introduced: 18 Mar 2022

CVE-2022-24302  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade paramiko to version 2.10.1 or higher.

Overview

paramiko is a library for making SSH2 connections (client or server).

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition when creating new private key files using ~paramiko.pkey.PKey subclasses, it is possible to be exploited in the process between file creation & mode modification via the write_private_key_file function.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1