Improper Access Control Affecting zodb3 package, versions [3.8.0a1,3.8.3)[3.9.0,3.9.0c2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-ZODB3-6165818
  • published17 Jan 2024
  • disclosed8 Sept 2009
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Sep 2009

CVE-2009-2701  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ZODB3 to version 3.8.3, 3.9.0c2 or higher.

Overview

ZODB3 is a ZODB3 - Meta release for ZODB, persistent, BTrees and ZEO

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Access Control due to improper handling of ZEO database sharing and blob support. An attacker can read or delete arbitrary files by exploiting unknown vectors.

Note

This vulnerability is only exploitable when:

  1. Using ZEO to share a database among multiple applications or application instances,

  2. Allowing untrusted clients to connect to your ZEO server, and the ZEO server is configured to support blobs.

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