Incorrect Authorization Affecting vantage6 package, versions [,4.0.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-VANTAGE6-5961712
  • published12 Oct 2023
  • disclosed11 Oct 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Oct 2023

CVE-2023-28635  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-863  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade vantage6 to version 4.0.0 or higher.

Overview

vantage6 is a vantage6 command line interface

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Authorization when the username or user id is used to define access permissions. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to resources by creating usernames with integer values. This is only exploitable if the resource name is an integer. Version 4.0.0 contains a patch for this issue.

CVSS Scores

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