Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting pytest-qt-app package, versions [,1.1.0)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-PYTESTQTAPP-42017
- published 30 Oct 2017
- disclosed 16 Feb 2016
- credit Unknown
Overview
pytest-qt-app is session-scoped by default and run in a subprocess and temp dir to cleanup when it's done.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution attacks. It would run subprocess with shell=True, allowing an attacker to insert shell commands in the function.
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