CVE-2023-41334 astropy vulnerable to RCE in TranformGraph().to_dot_graph function

2024-03-1818:48:14

CWE-77

GitHub_M

github.com

astropy

python

vulnerability

rce

input validation

subprocess

fix

astronomy

CVSS3

8.4

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

AI Score

7.6

Confidence

Low

SSVC

Exploitation

poc

Automatable

Technical Impact

total

JSON

Astropy is a project for astronomy in Python that fosters interoperability between Python astronomy packages. Version 5.3.2 of the Astropy core package is vulnerable to remote code execution due to improper input validation in the TranformGraph().to_dot_graph function. A malicious user can provide a command or a script file as a value to the savelayout argument, which will be placed as the first value in a list of arguments passed to subprocess.Popen. Although an error will be raised, the command or script will be executed successfully. Version 5.3.3 fixes this issue.

ADP Affected

[
  {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:astropy_project:astropy:5.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "vendor": "astropy_project",
    "product": "astropy",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "5.3.2"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "affected"
  }
]