GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-8hx6-qv6f-xgcw MindsDB can be made to not verify SSL certificates
CRITICAL
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- Aliases
- CVE-2023-38699
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- MindsDB
- Severity
- Critical
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-311
- Reviewed
- 2023-08-01
Affected packages
• PyPI MindsDB: < 23.7.4.0 → fixed in 23.7.4.0
Description
Summary
MindsDB's AI Virtual Database allows developers to connect any AI/ML model to any datasource. Prior to version 23.7.4.0, a call to requests with `verify=False` disables SSL certificate checks. This rule enforces always verifying SSL certificates for methods in the Requests library. In version 23.7.4.0, certificates are validated by default, which is the desired behavior
Encryption in general is typically critical to the security of many applications. Using TLS can significantly increase security by guaranteeing the identity of the party you are communicating with. This is accomplished by one or both parties presenting trusted certificates during the connection initialization phase of TLS.
It is important to note that modules such as httplib within the Python standard library did not verify certificate chains until it was fixed in 2.7.9 release.
Details
Severity: Critical
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2023-38699 MindsDB's AI Virtual Database allows developers to connect any AI/ML model to any datasource. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-311 Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data weakness
References
- https://github.com/mindsdb/mindsdb/security/advisories/GHSA-8hx6-qv6f-xgcw web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-38699 advisory
- https://github.com/mindsdb/mindsdb/commit/083afcf6567cf51aa7d89ea892fd97689919053b web
- https://github.com/mindsdb/mindsdb package
- https://github.com/mindsdb/mindsdb/releases/tag/v23.7.4.0 web
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/mindsdb/PYSEC-2023-140.yaml web