CVE-2023-41334
astropy - security update
Description
Astropy is a project for astronomy in Python that fosters interoperability between Python astronomy packages. Version 5.3.2 of the Astropy core package is vulnerable to remote code execution due to improper input validation in the `TranformGraph().to_dot_graph` function. A malicious user can provide a command or a script file as a value to the `savelayout` argument, which will be placed as the first value in a list of arguments passed to `subprocess.Popen`. Although an error will be raised, the command or script will be executed successfully. Version 5.3.3 fixes this issue.
How to fix CVE-2023-41334
To remediate CVE-2023-41334, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —no fix listed
- —upgrade to 3.1.2-2+deb10u1 or later
- —upgrade to 5.3.3 or later
Is CVE-2023-41334 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 2.9%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (3)
- from 0
- from 0, < 3.1.2-2+deb10u1
- from 0, < 5.3.3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |