Race Condition Affecting prefect package, versions [,0.14.21)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PREFECT-5812124
  • published1 Aug 2023
  • disclosed1 Aug 2023
  • creditzanieb

Introduced: 1 Aug 2023

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade prefect to version 0.14.21 or higher.

Overview

prefect is a Prefect is a new workflow management system, designed for modern infrastructure and powered by the open-source Prefect Core workflow engine. Users organize Tasks into Flows, and Prefect takes care of the rest.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition such that it's possible for the result directory to be created between the exists check and creation.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1