Deserialization of Untrusted Data Affecting sqlitedict package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-SQLITEDICT-8058638
  • published19 Sept 2024
  • disclosed18 Sept 2024
  • creditWilliam Lin

Introduced: 18 Sep 2024

CVE-2024-35515  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-502  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for sqlitedict.

Overview

sqlitedict is a Persistent dict in Python, backed up by sqlite3 and pickle, multithread-safe.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Deserialization of Untrusted Data via insecure deserialization. An attacker can execute arbitrary code by exploiting the deserialization process.

Note: Maintainers don't consider this worth patching.

Details

Serialization is a process of converting an object into a sequence of bytes which can be persisted to a disk or database or can be sent through streams. The reverse process of creating object from sequence of bytes is called deserialization. Serialization is commonly used for communication (sharing objects between multiple hosts) and persistence (store the object state in a file or a database). It is an integral part of popular protocols like Remote Method Invocation (RMI), Java Management Extension (JMX), Java Messaging System (JMS), Action Message Format (AMF), Java Server Faces (JSF) ViewState, etc.

Deserialization of untrusted data (CWE-502) is when the application deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently verifying that the resulting data will be valid, thus allowing the attacker to control the state or the flow of the execution.

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