Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition Affecting wordops package, versions [,3.21.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-WORDOPS-6809228
  • published6 May 2024
  • disclosed6 May 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 May 2024

CVE-2024-34528  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-367  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade wordops to version 3.21.0 or higher.

Overview

wordops is an An essential toolset that eases server administration

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition in stack_pref.py, which sets the the conf_path variable using os.open function, and does not restrict the permissions on the resulting file. An attacker can exploit this to inject a malicious file which is subsequently executed.

CVSS Scores

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