Path Traversal Affecting whoogle-search package, versions [,0.8.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (37th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-WHOOGLESEARCH-6186524
  • published25 Jan 2024
  • disclosed23 Jan 2024
  • credit@sylwia-budzynska

Introduced: 23 Jan 2024

CVE-2024-22204  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade whoogle-search to version 0.8.4 or higher.

Overview

whoogle-search is a Self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Path Traversal via the config function. An attacker can overwrite files on the system with a dictionary containing arbitrary data and the url key value by manipulating the name variable and providing malicious config_data.

CVSS Scores

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