CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-29189
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-03-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-78
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.
Affected configurations
• ansys pyansys geometry (>= 0.3.0 < 0.3.3)
• ansys pyansys geometry (>= 0.4.0 < 0.4.12)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command weakness
References
- https://bandit.readthedocs.io/en/1.7.8/plugins/b602_subprocess_popen_with_shell_equals_true.html Technical Description
- https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/blob/52cba1737a8a7812e5430099f715fa2160ec007b/src/ansys/geometry/core/connection/product_instance.py#L403-L428 Patch
- https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/commit/902071701c4f3a8258cbaa46c28dc0a65442d1bc Patch
- https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/commit/f82346b9432b06532e84f3278125f5879b4e9f3f Patch
- https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/pull/1076 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/pull/1077 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/security/advisories/GHSA-38jr-29fh-w9vm Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://bandit.readthedocs.io/en/1.7.8/plugins/b602_subprocess_popen_with_shell_equals_true.html Technical Description
- https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/blob/52cba1737a8a7812e5430099f715fa2160ec007b/src/ansys/geometry/core/connection/product_instance.py#L403-L428 Patch
- https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/commit/902071701c4f3a8258cbaa46c28dc0a65442d1bc Patch
- https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/commit/f82346b9432b06532e84f3278125f5879b4e9f3f Patch
- https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/pull/1076 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/pull/1077 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/ansys/pyansys-geometry/security/advisories/GHSA-38jr-29fh-w9vm Exploit, Vendor Advisory