GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-8phj-f9w2-cjcc Arbitrary file reading vulnerability in Aim
CRITICAL
Official page ↗
- Aliases
- CVE-2021-43775
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- aim
- Severity
- Critical
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
- Reviewed
- 2021-11-23
Affected packages
• PyPI aim: < 3.1.0 → fixed in 3.1.0
Description
Impact
A path traversal attack aims to access files and directories that are stored outside the web root folder. By manipulating variables that reference files with “dot-dot-slash (../)” sequences and its variations or by using absolute file paths, it may be possible to access arbitrary files and directories stored on file system including application source code or configuration and critical system files.
Vulnerable code: https://github.com/aimhubio/aim/blob/0b99c6ca08e0ba7e7011453a2f68033e9b1d1bce/aim/web/api/views.py#L9-L16
Patches
The vulnerability issue is resolved in Aim v3.1.0.
References
https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Path_Traversal
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2021-43775 Aim is an open-source, self-hosted machine learning experiment tracking tool. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- https://github.com/aimhubio/aim/security/advisories/GHSA-8phj-f9w2-cjcc web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-43775 advisory
- https://github.com/aimhubio/aim/issues/999 web
- https://github.com/aimhubio/aim/pull/1003 web
- https://github.com/aimhubio/aim/commit/b9e53df5e32d14bbd3a2c738e2db7187fb531e93 web
- https://github.com/aimhubio/aim package
- https://github.com/aimhubio/aim/blob/0b99c6ca08e0ba7e7011453a2f68033e9b1d1bce/aim/web/api/views.py#L9-L16 web
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/aim/PYSEC-2021-839.yaml web