ghsa-6jgw-rgmm-7cv6
Vulnerability from github
Published
2024-10-15 15:30
Modified
2024-10-15 17:04
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
4.8 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Summary
PyO3 has a risk of use-after-free in `borrowed` reads from Python weak references
Details

The family of functions to read "borrowed" values from Python weak references were fundamentally unsound, because the weak reference does itself not have ownership of the value. At any point the last strong reference could be cleared and the borrowed value would become dangling.

In PyO3 0.22.4 these functions have all been deprecated and patched to leak a strong reference as a mitigation. PyO3 0.23 will remove these functions entirely.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "crates.io",
        "name": "pyo3"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0.22.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "0.22.4"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2024-9979"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-416"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2024-10-15T17:04:56Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2024-10-15T14:15:05Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "The family of functions to read \"borrowed\" values from Python weak references were fundamentally unsound, because the weak reference does itself not have ownership of the value. At any point the last strong reference could be cleared and the borrowed value would become dangling.\n\nIn PyO3 0.22.4 these functions have all been deprecated and patched to leak a strong reference as a mitigation. PyO3 0.23 will remove these functions entirely.",
  "id": "GHSA-6jgw-rgmm-7cv6",
  "modified": "2024-10-15T17:04:56Z",
  "published": "2024-10-15T15:30:56Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-9979"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3/pull/4590"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-9979"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2318646"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://crates.io/crates/pyo3"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2024-0378.html"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V4"
    }
  ],
  "summary": " PyO3 has a risk of use-after-free in `borrowed` reads from Python weak references"
}


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