Arbitrary File Read Affecting piexif package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-PIEXIF-2312874
  • published 8 May 2022
  • disclosed 8 Dec 2021
  • credit homm

Introduced: 8 Dec 2021

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How to fix?

There is no fixed version for piexif.

Overview

piexif is a package intended to simplify exif manipulations with Python. Writing, reading, and more…

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary File Read due to missing sanitization in piexif.load which accepts both filenames and raw data, leading to a possible file read.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
6.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    None