Arbitrary File Overwrite Affecting pyro package, versions [,3.15)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PYRO-72279
  • published1 Sept 2018
  • disclosed1 Sept 2011
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Sep 2011

CVE-2011-2765  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-310  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade pyro to version 3.15 or higher.

Overview

pyro is a Distributed Object Technology system written entirely in Python, that is designed to be very easy to use.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary File Overwrite. It handled pid files in temporary directory locations and was opening the pid file as root. An attacker could use this flaw to overwrite arbitrary files via symlinks.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1