CVE-2023-40590
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-08-28 17:24
Modified
2024-10-02 14:04
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
GitPython is a python library used to interact with Git repositories. When resolving a program, Python/Windows look for the current working directory, and after that the PATH environment. GitPython defaults to use the `git` command, if a user runs GitPython from a repo has a `git.exe` or `git` executable, that program will be run instead of the one in the user's `PATH`. This is more of a problem on how Python interacts with Windows systems, Linux and any other OS aren't affected by this. But probably people using GitPython usually run it from the CWD of a repo. An attacker can trick a user to download a repository with a malicious `git` executable, if the user runs/imports GitPython from that directory, it allows the attacker to run any arbitrary commands. There is no fix currently available for windows users, however there are a few mitigations. 1: Default to an absolute path for the git program on Windows, like `C:\\Program Files\\Git\\cmd\\git.EXE` (default git path installation). 2: Require users to set the `GIT_PYTHON_GIT_EXECUTABLE` environment variable on Windows systems. 3: Make this problem prominent in the documentation and advise users to never run GitPython from an untrusted repo, or set the `GIT_PYTHON_GIT_EXECUTABLE` env var to an absolute path. 4: Resolve the executable manually by only looking into the `PATH` environment variable.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html#popen-constructorProduct
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython/security/advisories/GHSA-wfm5-v35h-vwf4Exploit, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html#popen-constructorProduct
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython/security/advisories/GHSA-wfm5-v35h-vwf4Exploit, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
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