GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-w2gf-jxc9-pf2q sniff_csv provides filesystem access even when enable_external_access is disabled in duckdb
HIGH
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- 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
- https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/security/advisories/GHSA-w2gf-jxc9-pf2q web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-41672 advisory
- https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/pull/13133 web
- https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/commit/c9b7c98aa0e1cd7363fe8bb8543a95f38e980d8a web
- https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb package
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/duckdb/PYSEC-2024-203.yaml web