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GHSA-w2gf-jxc9-pf2q sniff_csv provides filesystem access even when enable_external_access is disabled in duckdb

HIGH Published 2025-01-21 Modified 2025-01-21 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2024-41672
Ecosystem
PyPI
Packages
duckdb
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-200
Reviewed
2025-01-21

Affected packages

• PyPI duckdb: >= 1.0.0, < 1.1.0 → fixed in 1.1.0

Description

Summary Content in filesystem is accessible for reading using `sniff_csv`, even with `enable_external_access=false`. Details During a pentest, a security researcher was able to access environment variable data and other system data by using the `sniff_csv` function, even though we set `enable_external_access` to false. PoC ```SQL SET enable_external_access=false; SET lock_configuration=true; SELECT Columns FROM sniff_csv('/proc/self/environ'); ``` Impact Provides an attacker with access to filesystem even when access is expected to be disabled and other similar functions do NOT provide access. For example `select * from read_csv('/proc/self/environ')` fails with a permission error. There seems to be two vectors to this vulnerability: 1. Access to files that should otherwise not be allowed. (We expect `Permission Error: Scanning CSV files is disabled through configuration` and not to provide any access to the file or even acknowledge that it exists). 2. The content from a (non-csv?) file can be read (e.g. `/etc/hosts`, `proc/self/environ`, etc) even though that doesn't seem to be the intent of the sniff_csv function (my understanding is it's intending to provide information about the shape of the data, but not provide the data itself). Workaround It is possible to work around the issue by disabling the local file system using the `disabled_filesystems` setting: ```SQL SET disabled_filesystems='LocalFileSystem'; SET lock_configuration=true; SELECT Columns FROM sniff_csv('/proc/self/environ'); ``` will result in `Permission Error: File system LocalFileSystem has been disabled by configuration`. Fix A fix has been merged into the `main` branch (https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/pull/13133), and will be released with the next DuckDB release.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2024-41672 DuckDB is a SQL database management system. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness

References