Command Injection Affecting pymatgen package, versions [,2024.2.20)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-PYMATGEN-6261793
- published 22 Feb 2024
- disclosed 21 Feb 2024
- credit William Khem-Marquez
Introduced: 21 Feb 2024
CVE-2024-23346 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade pymatgen to version 2024.2.20 or higher.
Overview
pymatgen is a Python Materials Genomics is a robust materials analysis code that defines core object representations for structures and molecules with support for many electronic structure codes. It is currently the core analysis code powering the Materials Project (https://materialsproject.org).
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection due to a flawed code segment involving a regular expression operation followed by the use of eval() function in the JonesFaithfulTransformation.from_transformation_str() method. An attacker can execute arbitrary code when parsing untrusted input.