Description
PyAnsys Geometry is a Python client library for the Ansys Geometry service and other CAD Ansys products. On file src/ansys/geometry/core/connection/product_instance.py, upon calling this method _start_program directly, users could exploit its usage to perform malicious operations on the current machine where the script is ran. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.3.3 and 0.4.12.
CVSS breakdown
CVSS 3.1
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Affected products
- ansys / pyansys-geometry>= 0.3.0, < 0.3.3 – >= 0.3.0, < 0.3.3
- ansys / pyansys-geometry>= 0.4.0, < 0.4.12 – >= 0.4.0, < 0.4.12
References
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/security/advisories/GHSA-38jr-29fh-w9vm
- PATCHhttps://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/pull/1076
- PATCHhttps://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/pull/1077
- PATCHhttps://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/commit/902071701c4f3a8258cbaa46c28dc0a65442d1bc
- PATCHhttps://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/commit/f82346b9432b06532e84f3278125f5879b4e9f3f
- MISChttps://bandit.readthedocs.io/en/1.7.8/plugins/b602_subprocess_popen_with_shell_equals_true.html
- MISChttps://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/blob/52cba1737a8a7812e5430099f715fa2160ec007b/src/ansys/geometry/core/connection/product_instance.py#L403-L428