Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting python-devel package, versions <2.7.18-150000.41.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (58th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-PYTHONDEVEL-2946510
  • published10 Jul 2022
  • disclosed8 Jul 2022

Introduced: 8 Jul 2022

CVE-2015-20107  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-77  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 python-devel to version 2.7.18-150000.41.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python-devel package and not the python-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.1 relevant fixed versions and status.

In Python (aka CPython) up to 3.10.8, the mailcap module does not add escape characters into commands discovered in the system mailcap file. This may allow attackers to inject shell commands into applications that call mailcap.findmatch with untrusted input (if they lack validation of user-provided filenames or arguments). The fix is also back-ported to 3.7, 3.8, 3.9

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1