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PYSEC-2022-42993

Vulnerability from pysec - Published: 2022-12-16 23:15 - Updated: 2023-05-04 04:29

Details

GuardDog is a CLI tool to identify malicious PyPI packages. Versions prior to v0.1.8 are vulnerable to arbitrary file write when scanning a specially-crafted remote PyPI package. Extracting files using shutil.unpack_archive() from a potentially malicious tarball without validating that the destination file path is within the intended destination directory can cause files outside the destination directory to be overwritten. This issue is patched in version 0.1.8. Potential workarounds include using a safer module, like zipfile, and validating the location of the extracted files and discarding those with malicious paths.

Impacted products

Name	purl
guarddog	pkg:pypi/guarddog

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  "id": "PYSEC-2022-42993",
  "modified": "2023-05-04T04:29:25.550921Z",
  "published": "2022-12-16T23:15:00Z",
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      "type": "EVIDENCE",
      "url": "https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/blob/a1d064ceb09d39bb28deb6972bc0a278756ea91f/guarddog/scanners/package_scanner.py#L153..158"
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      "type": "FIX",
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  ]
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CVE-2022-23530 (GCVE-0-2022-23530)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-16 22:56 – Updated: 2025-04-17 14:34

Title

GuardDog vulnerable to arbitrary file write when scanning a specially-crafted remote PyPI package

Summary

Severity

5.8 (Medium)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-04-17 14:34 UTC

CWE

CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/security/advi…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/commit/37c7d0…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/blob/a1d064ce…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
DataDog	guarddog	Affected: < 0.1.8

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GHSA-78M5-JPMF-CH7V

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-12-05 23:34 – Updated: 2024-11-18 16:26

Summary

GuardDog vulnerable to arbitrary file write when scanning a specially-crafted remote PyPI package

Details

Summary

Unsafe extracting using shutil.unpack_archive() from a remotely retrieved tarball may lead to writing the extracted file to an unintended destination.

Details

Extracting files using shutil.unpack_archive() from a potentially malicious tarball without validating that the destination file path is within the intended destination directory can cause files outside the destination directory to be overwritten.

The vulnerable code snippet is between L153..158.

response = requests.get(url, stream=True)

with open(zippath, "wb") as f:
      f.write(response.raw.read())

shutil.unpack_archive(zippath, unzippedpath)

It seems that a remotely retrieved tarball which could be with the extension .tar.gz happens to be unpacked using shutil.unpack_archive() with no destination verification/limitation of the extracted files.

PoC

The PoC provided showcases the risk of extracting the non-harmless text file sim4n6.txt to a parent location rather than the current folder.

> tar --list -f archive.tar
tar: Removing leading `../../../' from member names
../../../sim4n6.txt

> python3 
Python 3.10.6 (main, Nov  2 2022, 18:53:38) [GCC 11.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import shutil
>>> shutil.unpack_archive("archive.tar")
>>> exit()

> file ../../../sim4n6.txt
../../../sim4n6.txt: ASCII text

A Potential Attack Scenario

An attacker may craft a malicious tarball with a filename path, such as ../../../../../../../../etc/passwd, and then serve the archive remotely, thus, providing a possibility to overwrite the system files.

Mitigation

Potential mitigation could be to: - Use a safer module, like zipfile. - Validate the location of the extracted files and discard those with malicious paths such as a relative path .. or absolute ones.

Severity

5.8 (Medium)


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

2.3 (Low)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L

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PYSEC-2022-42993

CVE-2022-23530 (GCVE-0-2022-23530)

GHSA-78M5-JPMF-CH7V

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