Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type Affecting pytorch-lightning package, versions [0,2.4.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-PYTORCHLIGHTNING-7411413
  • published 28 Jun 2024
  • disclosed 27 Jun 2024
  • credit zpbrent

How to fix?

Upgrade pytorch-lightning to version 2.4.0 or higher.

Overview

pytorch-lightning is a lightweight PyTorch wrapper for ML researchers. Scale your models. Write less boilerplate.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type through the /v1/runs API endpoint when extracting tar.gz files. An attacker can deploy the malicious tar.gz plugins that exploit path traversal vulnerabilities, allowing to write files to arbitrary locations on the victim's file system.

CVSS Scores

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Snyk

Recommended
8.8 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Attack Requirements (AT)
    None
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Confidentiality (VC)
    None
  • Integrity (VI)
    High
  • Availability (VA)
    High
  • Confidentiality (SC)
    None
  • Integrity (SI)
    None
  • Availability (SA)
    None