Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting astropy package, versions [,5.3.3)


0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Proof of concept
    EPSS 0.05% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-ASTROPY-6457316
  • published 19 Mar 2024
  • disclosed 19 Mar 2024
  • credit u32i

How to fix?

Upgrade astropy to version 5.3.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Command Injection via the to_dot_graph() function's savelayout argument, which is passed to subprocess.Popen.

PoC

tg.to_dot_graph(savefn="/tmp/1.txt", savelayout="/tmp/script")