Privilege Escalation Affecting python package, versions [3.9.0][3.10.0][3.11.0rc2]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (13th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PYTHON-3091118
  • published31 Oct 2022
  • disclosed26 Oct 2022
  • creditDevin Jeanpierre

Introduced: 26 Oct 2022

CVE-2022-42919  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via the multiprocessing forkserver start method.

Note: This vulnerability is only relevant to versions 3.9, 3.10, and 3.11.0rc2 on Linux.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1